Passion and percussion
Two tastes of Chinese culture in London
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
