The Critics
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Rebus at the school of hard Knox
The tropes are popular, because they work
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
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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
Why ministers fail
Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform