Hamas
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Giving peace a chance
War has had its opportunity, and it has failed
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The baddies who don’t know they are
A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom
Saving Gaza with a Queer intifada
Saving the world with slam poetry
The T word and the BBC
Why is the Beeb so coy about the nature of Hamas?
No debanking double standards
Claims of hypocrisy are evasive and wrong
Stateless in Gaza
Gaza can no longer be left to rot
Is Belarus entitled to sovereignty?
In the air or on the ground
Pointless bloodshed
Israel will remain intact and strong. Gaza will stay poor and isolated
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
