Covid Restrictions
COVID truth and reconciliation
We must learn the lessons of our pandemic response
Dante, 700 years on
We, too, are exiled from Florence
Fear in a time of Covid
Manipulating public emotion is a dangerous and costly exercise
Last orders
Is this the end of the hospitality industry?
What would be different if Starmer was in charge?
Keir Starmer’s weakness is a lack of healthy scepticism for the wisdom of experts
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets