Book Review
Panic on the streets
A new book is a gripping account of terror and death in London
Marriage blues
Don’t worry, Rosie, the divorces will start soon
“I’m afraid the news is not good …”
Our confidence in doctor diagnosis is sadly misplaced
A blunderbuss blast at “progressives”
Progress is too important to be left to the progressives
How speech flowered from an ancient root
Connective tissue between Classical Western and Indian languages
A clean-up job for bullshit politics
A case against “TERFs” uses interesting research in the service of the absurd
A heap of broken images
A new book finds some clarity in our unstable world
Potatoes, pigs and peat
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine
Betting on hedges
In nature, everything is connected, and nothing is simple
Reflections on the rubble of the ancients
An enthusiasm for ruins is far from universal
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent