Book of the Year
The Critic books of the year
Reading highlights from our editors and contributors
Strongholds and strong women
Three non-fiction works beat out the general mediocrity of 2022
Standing tall on an uncluttered horizon
The best new fiction of 2022
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
