Francesca Peacock
Francesca Peacock is the Deputy Online Editor of The Critic. She tweets at @cesca_peacock
The life-long genius of Sickert
There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?