Christmas
Britain’s love affair with port
Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020
Festive nuts and spice
Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for
Into the festive spirit
Christopher Pincher enjoys a 2009 Margaux in a dining room steeped in historical scandal
How to beat the killjoys
A pared-back Christmas means we can at last bin the big bird, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Reflection in Advent
I am a half-Jewish product of artificial trees, bagels, White Hart Lane, and of two people who knew little of theology but everything of God’s love
The lost art of the Christmas single
The great Christmas singles came from the broken remains of a country that had forgotten how to be itself
Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled
A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions
2020: It’s no place for the old
The debate over Fairytale of New York is proof that 2020 is the year in which woke doctrine went into overdrive
‘Tis the season to be Zooming?
After months of misery and lockdowns, the prospect of losing Christmas would be disastrous for so many
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
