The Critics
The good book?
The show is a handy barometer of changing sensitivities about free speech in comedy
French spy classic rebooted in English
It’s like being at a party with people you think you know — who then turn out to be someone else
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal