Violence doesn’t pay
Despite its seductive qualities, violent protest rarely ends well
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
Death comes for the church building
The Church of England abandons historic buildings – can they have an afterlife?
There’s more to the Chris Chan case
How this story is bigger than “trans activist does another awful thing”
Oki Doki Gen Z
Meet the self-made millionaires who support Bernie Sanders and stream ten hours a day
Letter from Washington: Afghan blues
The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache
What do we do with the the Irish border?
Professor Katy Hayward tells us what Dublin and Brussels want us to hear
Keir we go
It took long enough but Starmer told Labour some home truths
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
Unclean
Mridul Wadhwa wants to “clean” women out of Edinburgh Rape Crisis history
Prudes against nudes
Feminist protests put a puritanical limit on the aesthetic quality of nudity