On Art
Behind the scenes at the museums
The exhibits missing from the globe’s galleries and museums
Thoughtful delicacy and austere introspection
An exhibition of the art of Gwen John secures her legacy
Women’s anger and women’s ambiguities
A new exhibition offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, perspectives on women in revolt
The second life of Pauline Boty
Critics should not drown this much-needed revival in emotive clichés
Beneath Disney’s Hood
Robin Hood marked the beginning of a steep decline for the much-loved brand
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
Tove Jansson’s humane vision
A major Paris exhibition highlights timeless themes of the Finnish artist’s ouvre
Forever stuck in the nineties
Sarah Lucas and the sexual revolution that wasn’t
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
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.
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations