Parliament Square
Parliament Square is The Critic's political gossip columnist
No Russian money for Dom
Grieve accidentally sends begging emails to eurosceptics
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos