Transwidows
Til trans do us part
Trans widows deserve legal protection for their right to consent
Turning victims into folk devils
The plight of the “transwidows” scorned for telling the unfashionable truth about their abusive autogynephile husbands
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
Lord of the Flies (but not the zippers)
Tribal warfare suits the chieftain of Tory island
The diary of Dilyn the dog
Just us. For years and years
Rodent utopia
Dropping out of the rat race
Send in the spivs
War offers so much more in the way of profitable procurement than even the pandemic
Do not go gently after that bad knight
It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!
The Critic Books Podcast: Cult writers
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
Celebrate our multi-ethnic democracy
Rakib’s Britain: the UK has given a golden opportunity to minority Brits, so why are we told patriotism isn’t for us?
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality