Issue: January 2020
Modus shoperandi
Hannah Betts says it’s the shopping you’re buying, not the outfit
Spare the spoons
Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot
Stag do
Patrick Galbraith takes a shot at deer stalking
Pumping irony
Nick Cohen says you don’t need to join a gym to get fit
Irregular and unequal
Is inequality really a disease? The chairman of the British Medical Association thinks so…
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar
Full of events and individuals worthy of toasting for every day of the year
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
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter