The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives
Why we need a common faith
Is there any clear route out of the philosophical modernity and nihilism that plague our reality?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
