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
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Death in the shadows
The sad case of Sudiksha Thirumalesh
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
