Drop your weapons
Knives Out deserves a reprieve from the dread of bad sequels
The man who took the wrong flat white
We urgently need new rules for modern social etiquette
Juke it out
It’s Wes Anderson vs Edgar Wright in the battle for the coolest ever soundtrack
Play it again, Sam
Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival
Where in the world
In the post-pandemic world, travel is all in the mind
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
