Artillery Row
Forty years a politician
Harriet Harman’s legacy will forever be tainted by her blinding ideology
Knit picking
The invisible knitting of Michelle Obama led to the cancellation of Kristy Glass
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
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
