Fighting back against the IRA mob
Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave
Gerry Adams was not in the IRA
This is not an article on the internet
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
Save yourselves
We should not underestimate the deep seriousness of sex
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
