The Critics
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
A full musical meal
An unforgettable concert experience
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
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
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith