Giro d’Italia
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline