Artillery Row
The banality of Barbie
Glossy social commentary does not reflect the facts
Excessive expectations
On writers and mental health
Not letting the Games begin
Progressive hubris spoils a chance for Australian success
A floundering academic culture
UCU’s marking boycott is a lesson in hypocrisy
Retiree rebels
Protest can be a pursuit of the old more than the young
The state of maaate
All hail Sadiq Khan’s campaign against embarrassing sexists
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
Luxury politics and the narcissistic left
Commodification with a woke twist
Too formal for the pub
Mr Händel im pub: Baroque meets folk (Arcantus)
Maaate
A short story
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
