The Critics
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Most Read
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
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
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat