Wine
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Holiday wines
It’s not to go shopping like a normal human being, rather than a wine bore
Good, mid-range claret is now very affordable
At these prices can you afford not to be drinking Bordeaux?
Traditional beefy favourites
Abandoning classic styles shows a lack of confidence
Uncork the demon
The demonisation of drink has overreached reason
Surprising reds from an old empire
Austria’s reds are rich in flavour, if not always heritage
Hits and misses
Wine made by pop stars, actors and cricketers
Call of The Leopard
A wine inspired by a classic Sicilian novel, savoured very, very slowly
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Most Read
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
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
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing