Artillery Row
Public health versus the public
Public health authorities hate it when consumers speak for themselves
Calling bullshit on “The Marbles”
A new documentary about the Elgin Marbles offers cinematic skill and historical bias
Kids, critics and the courage of Kate Clanchy
Writers have to be able to take risks, even if that means angering or upsetting people
Why can’t we let the Chagossians go home?
The majority of the displaced islanders remain loyal to the Crown and still hope to return
Security guarantees can guarantee insecurity
Trump should say no to a U.S.-Saudi defence deal
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
Britain, remembered
Remembrance risks becomes a state ritual for an untrusted and despised establishment
Beijing sees AI as the foundation of a new industrial age
Just as Britain’s steam engines were bound into networks, China is building the infrastructure to let AI expand
The new “enemy within”
Britain needs clear thinking and cheap energy
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
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.
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death