Almeida Theatre
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Greeks bearing gifts
This wine nation has more to offer than retsina
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
