Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled
A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions
Celebrating Rosh Hashanah in lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt the traditions of Jewish festivals
What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?
Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success
Fake news, Roman edition
Twisted tales are as old as time
Turning victims into folk devils
The plight of the “transwidows” scorned for telling the unfashionable truth about their abusive autogynephile husbands
Life of the party
Party conferences are insights into the parties’ souls — insights that are not always reassuring
Badges of obedience
Behind the NHS Rainbow is compulsory training and enforced ideology
“No debate” no longer an option
Persuasion works: three new books by gender critical feminists have captured public attention in spite of publishers
Border skirmishes
No actor has done more to endanger the future of Northern Ireland than the European Commission
Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra
The Larghetto’s organic optimism transcends present woes and looks to bright eternity
Renaud Capucon: Un violon à Paris (Warner Classics)
Taken together, it’s not the kind of music you want to hear in isolation
Heil Greta
It’s time for Greta-worshippers to subject her claims to the same scrutiny as other major political figures
Woke: the oldest profession
The modern hegemony of the “liberal professions” has become one of the principal challenges to liberal democracy
Passed with a synod and a wink
Putting matters theological to a vote might seem odd, but it actually makes sense
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author