The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
