The Critics
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
Dress rehearsal
A 2015 comedy starring Volodymyr Zelensky is now showing on Channel 4
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake
Being the girl in the green jumper
Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Art as resistance
This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent
Kino Kyiv
What to watch inform yourself about the rich Ukrainian cinematic tradition
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
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
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide