Niccolò Machiavelli
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Rough statecraft
Biden’s Machiavellian moment
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
