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
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
