Books
Walking the wild side of Merrie England
Revived folk customs are proud expressions of local identity and communal cohesion
Called to the bars
Whatever any reader knows about pubs, they will still learn more from this book
The mercurial master of magic and misery
If Dickens was a unique enchanter, Conrad is a charmingly bewitched conjurer of his genius
Priests moving in mysterious ways
The further Denöel gets, the weaker and more credulous he becomes
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
Novelist, Nobel laureate and Nazi
Which of these three facts is the most important?
Political diaries of a Chief Wet
Perhaps being a Conservative MP should be reserved for conservatives?
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
Murders for March
Celebrity killings, Victorian mysteries, and murders on the high seas
Deconstructing the architecture of cancel culture
The censorious impulse is degrading intellectual discourse on both sides of the Atlantic
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does