Artillery Row
Revolutions and revelations
An epic bike ride from London to Tehran sheds light on links between the East and West
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Star stuck
Should we still care about Michelin stars?
Imperial misdemeanours
Getting at the truth about T H Huxley
The charity-industrial complex strikes again
Why is the government paying for the privilege of being prosecuted by lefty lobbyists?
The Great Game
Professor Jeremy Black on the 19th century cold war over Asia between Russian and Britain
Theodora: an over-fussy feminist failure
With productions this bad, it is no surprise that nobody cares about opera
Sons of no one
Father absence plus porn addiction puts boys behind bars
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty