Irish Backstop
What do we do with the the Irish border?
Professor Katy Hayward tells us what Dublin and Brussels want us to hear
EU, mind your own business!
Does the EU genuinely fear a backdoor into its single market?
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
Who backed the backstop?
No one wants to own Boris’s Northern Ireland Protocol
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
