Emanuel Gomes
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
