The Critics
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
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
Frans Hals’ sense of fun
A delightful display of portraiture at the National Gallery
A maverick medic
A theatrical biography of a life saver
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
Content warning
On triggering opera and Arts Council England
Banned played on
The hit on Roisin Murphy’s ‘Hit Parade’
A new madonna
On AI and authenticity
Wall St wolves
On money, morality and motive in three films
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
