Return of the dragon
China’s Covid belligerence will only isolate it further
The coronavirus cure for global populism?
How the pandemic exposed some leaders’ bluster and might yet undermine authoritarian regimes
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
Letter from Washington: Biden delivers
2020 isn’t 2016 and Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
Valentin Silvestrov: 7th symphony (Naxos)
Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave
The vacuity of the Democratic National Convention
Biden’s cheerleaders prove there’s nothing to get excited about
Is it too late for Trump?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss last night’s debate with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
September 2020: Letters to the Editor
The divisions between the ruling managerial class and the rest are a recipe for extremism
Biden and Harris need an answer on court packing
The vice presidential debate revealed a weakness in the Biden campaign
Harvey Weinstein’s affair with the UK film industry
What does the downfall of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein mean for the UK’s dwindling film industry?
The 21st century Bolshevik
Brexit showed the ruling elite is still terrified by Trotsky’s ideas of working class upheaval
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside