Artillery Row
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
In praise of reality
2021 turned the tide on the gender critical debate — and reality won
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The Boris coaster
Is there any reason to doubt Boris Johnson has at least one more miraculous recovery up his sleeve?
The Government stole Christmas
For small businesses, Sunak’s billion is a pimple patch on a sucking chest wound