Issue: December 2019
Low road to deals
Thomas Woodham-Smith heads for Brussels bargains
Viva vintage!
Hannah Betts is addicted to Vestiaire Collective
Applying in camera
Claudia Savage-Gore gives the seven-plus her best shot
Flying tonight
Patrick Galbraith finds a little bit of Heaven in Hull
Natural health service
Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat
Walk, don’t run
‘If I can get them walking the editors and staff of The Critic will be demonstrating with Extinction Rebellion in six months’
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories