Christian Democratic Union
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
