Ben Munster
Ben Munster is a Rome-based writer with work in the New Yorker and the Financial Times. He tweets at @Ben_Munster
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?