Mental Health
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
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
