Pandemic Fiction
Seek out The Ballad of Wallis Island
Soderbergh’s misses are better than a lot of other people’s hits
Murders for September
Past and future killings
The coronavirus variations
Here are three of our most praised writers with new offerings written during one or more lockdowns and that also take in the pandemic in their subject matter
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures