Artillery Row
We deep dive at dawn
NEW: The Critic Sunday read — what biscuits were eaten at Chequers on Thursday
The destiny of cult thinking
Dark similarities with the Soviet moral void are already on the rise
The mythical lazy British worker
Time to stop demeaning young Britons
Liberty, fraternity, animosity
The right-wing turn in France
Let children’s books be children’s books
Literary hyper-analysis can do more harm than good
Holocaust Memorial Day and Christian lament
We should remember the Shoah with more than vague talk of “values”
In defence of medical heretics
Pronouns, schisms and the GLADD Charter
The Major problem
What is his legacy — if, indeed, he has one
Another day I would have died
How I watched James Bond in North Korea and lived to tell the tale
Abolish the disinformation reporter
Disinformation reporting is becoming activist journalism
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
