A recent court case could give free speech advocates some serious leverage against the government

On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener

Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

There are times when precaution stands in the way of what is right

More women means more censorship, more discrimination, more advocacy — and less debate

TERF basher Dr Adrian Harrop succumbed to Twitter’s intoxicating brew of self-righteousness and disinhibition

Is party time over for the convivial Tories?

Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive

The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture

The gallery has long been famous for its impressionist collection, but the reopening sheds light on other works of art