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Strange brew
The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in
2022: What can we say?
Weaponised words can only decrease in value
A year in review: the National Trust
Is the Great Fracas of 2020-21 over?
A year in the Gender Wars
Gender ideology is a many-headed Hydra
Getting the picture in 2021
From cryptocurrency to pandemic plagued exhibitions, it’s been an eventful year in art
The second gender war
After a year of progress, “conversion therapy ban” law threatens to resurrect bad gender policy all over again
Hate is not a crime
Officers’ good intentions have been weaponised by unscrupulous whingers to muzzle their ideological opponents
God wake ye, Merry England
The decadence and excess of the city is of a piece with puritanical restraint
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
Dante, 700 years on
We, too, are exiled from Florence
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate