Dogs
Pedigree chums
Patrick Galbraith salutes the perfection of “imperfect” dogs
Why aren’t dogs social distancing?
Dogs spread risk, and owners spread dogs
More than a dog’s life
Feed pets what you eat and babies what you hate, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The coronavirus inside your home
Yes, your cat can get Covid-19
The problem with Frost’s speech
Despite all the evidence, the UK assumes that the EU is acting in good faith
Sally Rooney and cultural boycotts
Rooney has now run into greater controversy than simple literary taste
Spare us the skintight sonata
If Yuja Wang were to strip everything right down to the music, she could be a sensation
No one expects the EU Inquisition
The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
Mish-firing on all cylinders
Boris seeks adulation from an emptying theatre
The vaccine passport fallacy
Why don’t we just charge the unvaccinated more?
Out of the blue
Despite some political hang-ups, James Fox provides diverting stories on the history of colour
On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders
The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering
It’s not easy being green…
A border tax on carbon emissions would encourage the markets to solve our green problems
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken