Mental Health
Degrees of Mental Illness
Cassandra Russell on the university students who game the system by self-diagnosing as psychologically unwell
How the lockdown restored my mental health
The message from a nagging government is unexpectedly liberating
Healing power of outdoors
Alexander Larman reviews The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman
Culture Coaches
As The Critic enters into the podcasting business, Dominic Green surveys the world of motivational, self-affirming podcasts
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken