Editorial
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
The Critic books of the year
Reading highlights from our editors and contributors
New Year’s writing resolutions
What I will try to improve in 2023
Elizabeth the Good
We shall not see her like again
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
Set an example
If the premiership is a monarchy, our kings need better advisers
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
