Paris Lockdown
Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
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
Should I buy Breaky Bottom?
England’ greatest vineyard is up for sale for the first time. Henry Jeffreys looks into whether it will make a good business proposition.