Dealing
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
Party pieces
Thomas Woodham-Smith sees out the antique year
Low road to deals
Thomas Woodham-Smith heads for Brussels bargains
Fun and danger at the Fair
‘I need antique fairs like a junkie needs a needle’
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
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
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar