The Critics
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Atticus updated
A new Mockingbird is masterful
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Music monsters
The perverted predators of pop
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
More than just a grumpy anti-modernist?
It’s time we appreciated the art of Sir Alfred Munnings
Ukraine’s patriotic master
The painter Ilya Repin straddled both Ukrainian and Russian cultures
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
