Mental Health
The Lockdown Lobotomy
The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
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
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
Reasons to be cheerful
Ten things that are wonderful about British racing
