Intelligent and well played though it is, Franziska Lee’s album of Londonoid piano pieces can’t make a bad sonata better

When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?

How Wokeism tries (and succeeds) at filling a religion-shaped void within the American left’s psyche

What modern families are missing

The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state

As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder

How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?

The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse

Do rising alcohol prices indicate the good times really are over — or could they harbour our freedom?

It’s Wes Anderson vs Edgar Wright in the battle for the coolest ever soundtrack