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
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
