Year in Review
The Critic books of the year
Reading highlights from our editors and contributors
The greatest shitshow on Earth
Hopes and fears at the end of 2022
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
