Cowboys
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
