Art World
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand