Cult
The Critic Books Podcast: Cult writers
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
