Conservative backbenchers are considering their options

The Critic’s political and US editors discuss the upcoming presidential debates

The Code of the Wafflers

There is no need to make Sherlock Holmes more likeable, part of his brilliance is in his ambiguity

New Department for Education guidance helps to quell the fallacy of ‘transgender children’

We may not know how best to help Belarus, but it would likely not hurt to look as if we might make an effort

Comparing the Cabinet on Twitter might suggest who is on manoeuvres – and who’s dropped the social media ball

The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to guarantee honesty and transparency in government, but has ensured that controversial decisions will be forever shrouded in secrecy

A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost

Mordor was much better than this