Compliance
Face masks make you stupid
Why face masks are a form of dehumanisation
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
The post-feminist Labour Party
What does Keir Starmer have to be proud of?
Timely reminder of the true price of oil
‘Disorder’ argues convincingly that world history now hinges on the price of oil
England has left Covid behind
But other countries are not so lucky