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Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
Art as resistance
This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent
Kino Kyiv
What to watch inform yourself about the rich Ukrainian cinematic tradition
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
The war in Ukraine may have only just begun
Campaign Diary: Russia is playing a long game and tapping into its Soviet past
Making misogyny a hate crime misses the point
Women need better application of the law, not new legislation from posturing MPs
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
The war for wombs
The surrogacy industry has made women’s bodies into a battleground
No, Keir, sex does matter
Denying biological reality is worsening a public health crisis
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
