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Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
