Great Britain
The NYT versus GB
What did Britain do to the New York Times?
Why shouldn’t Poland be richer than Britain?
It’s not the 80s anymore
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Supporting multiculturalism is the natural conservative position
Attacking it attacks the very essence of Britishness
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Soft power superpower?
It’s easy to mock, but British influence is real — and a potent tool for good
Learning to love Big Brother
A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
