Memoir
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
From the Trojan War to conflict in Ukraine
Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting
What awaits the IDF
Memories of unforgiving urban combat in a tank
Scrutonising Roger
How can we secure the legacy of Roger Scruton?
Fighting back against the IRA mob
Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave
Bookshop serendipity
A bibliophile carries books like memories
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Unflinching view of a fall from grace
If Carrère can be so honest, there is hope for lesser sinners
Kherson — the city that never sleeps
The daily Ukrainian struggle to survive
Going to war
Iraq, Eric Ambler and me
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
