belief
Have hope, have kids
How parenthood can steel us against stress and despair
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?