Parties
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Cometh the hour, Cummings the man?
If Dominic Cummings starts his own party, we should pay attention
No excuses for the Right
There is a way, if there is will
We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more
Time to admit it: the rules were always silly, and often cruel
There’s no party like a Sue Gray-compliant party
If you can remember May 2020, you were there and you are lying
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
