Joe Root
Hopes turn to Ashes
At this year’s series, bubbles will mean not Veuve Clicquot but protocols designed to ensure that the ball is all anyone catches Down Under
Too woke to travel write?
Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
Blacks to slaughter
If black lives really are to matter, we need stronger action against knife crime
Into the mystic
Contemporary debates over the “suitability” of many operas leaves us with only English productions
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
It’s a sad, sad situation
The bold standard
The scatalogical subversive
Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep
The drug war’s Neville Chamberlain
Decriminalising cannabis is the last thing London’s young people need
How do you define a party anyway?
Downing street was caught in a trap of its own making
The myth of the Victorian Christmas
Our values today are of consumerism and instant gratification, inherited from our Victorian forebears