Indiana Jones is back!
A fifth film is looming, but I really, really, wish it wasn’t
They (often) don’t want help
Unless we accept uncomfortable truths, we will continue to see people die on the streets
Christopher Hitchens and the culture war
Where would the late ciceronian speaker have fit into today’s polemical battles?
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Crenelations with friends
What playing Carcassonne taught me about my pals
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
