There needs to be a more balanced assessment of the Israel-Palestine conflict

The greatest works of fiction published this year

The Government can do nothing without removing Labour’s Human Rights Act

The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger

Schools are not fulfilling their duty of care to vulnerable children

The feminist fix: No one is pre-programmed to “desire” sex with children

A recent court case could give free speech advocates some serious leverage against the government

Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity

Ignore the snobs, trip the light (music) fantastic and bask in the shameless joy of Classic FM

On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener