Compliance
Poland was and is right about Russia
Opposing Putin isn’t hawkish, just realistic
The Critic Books Podcast: Cult writers
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
Love’s labourers lost
Romeo finds himself overcome by a sense of utter hopelessness
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Is banning conversion therapy legal?
Government plans still have serious questions of law to answer
What is truth? The ethics of memorials
A poorly-researched rush to judgement in both Oxford and Cambridge may not have served campaigners well
The people behind the podium
A treatise on the life and mating habits of the party political activist
Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over
Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all
Timely reminder of the true price of oil
‘Disorder’ argues convincingly that world history now hinges on the price of oil