Cover-up
Sinn Féin’s shame
The Irish republican movement’s dark history of sexual abuse and cover-up
Afghanistan and the lies we tell ourselves
The leaked “Afghanistan Papers” tell a story of cover-ups at every level of America’s longest war. But can we really expect anything different?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast