G.K. Chesterton
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
What we owe the dead
On the community of generations
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
The trouble with tradition
On the foetid fantasies of the fogeys
Study in prejudice
Richard Ingrams’ “roughing up” of G. K. Chesterton begs the question: who is creating a smokescreen around whom?
Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
