Eleanor Hancock
Eleanor Hancock is a freelance writer and creative, who is currently writing a book about County Lines. She has also performed spoken word at theatres around England, including the Old Electric in Blackpool. She tweets at @dyaknowwhat
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
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
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world