The Critic Essay
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
