Lockdown
This is what we amputated a limb for
A long-term historical perspective on Covid-19
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
Romeo’s 2020 Lockdown Awards
How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
Saving Face
Like a home-made mask, our tolerance is wearing thin
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
The teaching unions are a national disgrace
The teaching unions are not here to promote the value of education
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
