COP26
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
Solar energy is a pipe dream — if Europe is serious about net-zero, we should invest in nuclear
Man up, President Xi
Why not flip the script, and let China lead the world out of the climate crisis?
Good COP, bad COP
Why would our friends even want to give us Covid?
Lights out for Sturgeon
The powers she wants will guarantee darkness across Scotland
Watch what you say
Scotland’s blasphemy law means it’s just as well The Queen didn’t attend COP26
Bezos’s sub-prime delivery
One is a billionaire with visions of conquering space — the other is Hugo Drax
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
Bozzo’s team meets a nice girl called Greta, and spends ages over something called a tweet
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
