Book of the Year
Timeless wisdom
Literary gifts for every gardener or garden-lover on your Christmas list
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician