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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?