The Critics
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Saving a saint
Help is needed to secure a Franciscan miracle
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
The apple of my ear
Limitless choice and a rattle of regret
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
Tokyo story
An American takes on the Yakuza 84
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
