Jenners
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
