Artillery Row

Malcolm Arnold: The Dancing Master (Resonus)

The BBC thought Malcolm Arnold’s opera was not serious enough and a bit bawdy

Letter from Washington: Nancy Pelosi and the coming vaccine wars

What explains the House speaker’s attack on British regulation?

Flirting with the abyss

A benign trip to hospital offered a stark reminder that consciousness hangs by a deathly thread

Marxist Magic Realism

How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness

Hail to the Chief

The expansion of executive power in America

Confessions of a bar owner

The Government’s 10pm curfew runs the risk of decimating small, family-run establishments

Face masks diminish the romance of everyday life

Smiling – one of the primary expressions of our common humanity – has been rendered invisible by the ubiquity of face masks

Plagiarism in comedy – homage or theft?

How a hugely popular American satirical show ripped off an online British comedian

Harris vs Pence: What did we learn from the vice presidential debate?

The Critic’s political and US editors discuss with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness

Channel 4 turn off IT Crowd

Laurence Fox’s woke intervention, Glasgow football honour US liberal and Essex spray a Muslim with champagne