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
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
