Metropolitan Opera
Get woke, go broke: when cancel culture backfires
The attempted cancellation of James Levine came at a high price for New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
ULEZ if you want to
Looking back at a week of villains, like Queen Victoria, and heroes, like Dehenna Davison
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Why the election was good for Unionism
A diversity of voices will help rather than hinder the cause