Heels
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
Fracking is just common sense
The war in Ukraine has injected a healthy dose of realism into the West’s energy policy
Unhappy pilgrimage
The Church is on the move as Christians are “strategically driven” from their homes
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
How to end the war in Ukraine
Neither territorial concessions nor unrealistic dreams of toppling Putin can secure lasting peace
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Russian Orthodoxy on trial
Symphonia or caesaropapism?
How do you solve a problem like the protocol?
The apotheosis of Johnsonism
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
Trans activist makes a fuss without facts
Trans people in the UK have all the same rights, and a few more besides
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why