Carnival
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Notting Hill Carnival needs to clean up its act
The street party shouldn’t be above criticism
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
