Jonathan Gullis
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition
Artificially Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material is not a victimless crime
The often-raised theory that AI-CSAM is harmless or can even make children safer, must be quashed
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year