June letters
Hard power is the only currency that is truly respected
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
May letters
We are in grave danger of losing our musical marbles
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
The Critic books of the year
Reading highlights from our editors and contributors
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”