Europe
Paris on lockdown: ‘Eccentric’ running and a chastened president
Macron admits mistakes as quarantine continues in France
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
Death toll predictions are a mug’s game
John Ware asks if our trajectory is going to be so different to the rest of Europe’s
Ageing Europe faces demographic suicide
As their birth rate plunges, EU countries are failing to confront reality
Small is best
In Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa small nations lead in terms of economic and social development
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
