Artillery Row

It’s more than just a bag

The V&A’s new exhibition demonstrates that a handbag is indeed much more than its function

Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 2.0

The second instalment of Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary covers his first meal out in 10 months and how the Argentinian capital has been infiltrated by communists

All the news fit to post, two weeks early

It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers

Starting pistol

Brexiteer anger is beginning to spill over into actions

Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career

What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?

Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart

Islamophobia and the suicide of the West

In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia

Dominic Cummings and the illusion of control

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how woefully mistaken Cummings’ hopes were for lasting civil service reform

Braving the woke mob is a prisoner’s dilemma

Nicholas Shackel, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Cardiff, explains how to turn the prisoner’s dilemma into the free speaker’s game

Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?

In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer