Why is Tony Abbott such a hate figure?
Tony Abbott wants to tilt post-Brexit Britain towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership
How secure is Britain’s toehold in Cyprus?
What does the UK’s bilateral agreement with Cyprus mean for Britain’s presence in the eastern Med?
Steady Eddy charts a voyage into the unknown
Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems – but to what purpose?
The price of safety
From school face masks to how to pay for Covid – Tory MPs are getting nervous
“E” for effort
Exams fiasco: Gavin Williamson has failed
Does it all add up to you?
The British state can neither gather, interpret, nor explain its own statistics
Young man in a hurry
Is Douglas Ross ready to lead the Scottish Conservatives?
Lady Macbeth joins the SNP
Making sense of the SNP’s internecine conflict
So long, Jackson Carlaw
The Scottish Tories prove they are ruthless, after all. What are the conspirators’ plotting?
The day terrorism won
The murder of Ian Gow – thirty years on
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
