Columnists
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
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
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
