Dora Maar
A life in miniature
‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
How to take on the culture warriors
Determining what is and isn’t appropriate is not the job of thought-policing left authoritarians
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
