Sarah Hall
The Critic Books Podcast: Burntcoat
Burntcoat was one of the first “pandemic novels” to be published in the wake of Covid-19
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
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign