The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
Actors do love gongs
Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
