Wrangling over the writings of a rogue
Are we right to be amused by the diary of a sexual predator?
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand