Comedy
A tasty tester for a better year
The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
Trusting Dave Chappelle
The comedian’s 8:46 show is a stand-up special with few jokes
Plagiarism in comedy – homage or theft?
How a hugely popular American satirical show ripped off an online British comedian
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
How gender identity hurt women in Argentina
Argentinian women need refuges — but only for women
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
