Issue: March 2022
Singles club
There’s a strange delight in the commercially unviable single chair
The oh-so clever life of O’Brien
James O’Brien’s LBC morning show is a thundering, sanctimonious bore
The unheard lessons of howling feedback
Separating the signal from the noise
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
Studio: The English Baroque
Great architecture emerges as much from tension as coherence
A return, a reissue, a brilliant new voice
The best, and the not-so-great, new fiction to read this month
Searching in vain for Hitler’s lethal edict
These two new histories of the holocaust add little to what is already known
Courting disaster
Number 10, as a court, is now more-or-less sui generis
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
Golden boy turned starstruck rube
The self-justifying self-portrait of a journalist who never made it
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
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival