Covid
Tory Lockdown rebels reach 42
Scores of Tories have defied the Government’s instruction to vote for lockdown measures
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
Trusting Dave Chappelle
The comedian’s 8:46 show is a stand-up special with few jokes
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins
Letter from Washington: Nancy Pelosi and the coming vaccine wars
What explains the House speaker’s attack on British regulation?
Flirting with the abyss
A benign trip to hospital offered a stark reminder that consciousness hangs by a deathly thread
Confessions of a bar owner
The Government’s 10pm curfew runs the risk of decimating small, family-run establishments
Face masks diminish the romance of everyday life
Smiling – one of the primary expressions of our common humanity – has been rendered invisible by the ubiquity of face masks
Harris vs Pence: What did we learn from the vice presidential debate?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
What’s the point of Tory Party Conference?
Corporate and expensive, has Tory Party Conference had its day?
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
