Art
Unleash your inner Einstein
Science needn’t be difficult and dull, but we must inspire people with its wonders
Studio: Piranesi
Alasdair Palmer visits an exhibition at the Fondazione Marco Besso, Rome
Life Between Islands
The Tate’s exhibition shows Caribbean-British art from the Windrush to the present day
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (and old) Man
The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best
Nifty shades of grey
The National Gallery has surpassed itself, with a little help from its friends
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
The Courtauld: a collection unmasked
The gallery has long been famous for its impressionist collection, but the reopening sheds light on other works of art
To catch a culture thief
A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up
The Dresser Undressed
The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
