Artillery Row

Rumours of a crime

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a flawed man, but he should be allowed to be condemned by his words

Martyrs of the new religion

If transgenderism is a postmodern quasi-religion, then today is its most holy day

The Austrian solution

Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing

Gaullism at a crossroads

The French Right faces its old demons and its moment of truth

The myth of childhood obesity

The statistics are unfit for purpose

Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy

The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore

What’s told is news again

Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street

What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?

The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody

Barricading the bully pulpit

The Online Harms Bill promises safety for children but protects the very elites who corrupt and harm the young

John Saumarez Smith: a bibliophile and a gentleman

The Heywood Hill bookseller has died