The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Beware of the K-Hype
The strange state of the States
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
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
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
