In defence of the right to addictions
Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
