Political Biography
Lost in the eye of the hurricane
Crisis is the pinwheel of modern democratic politics
Can political biographies ever be any good?
Political memoirs can be essential, eye-popping reading if the subject is handled in the right way
Sorry is the hardest word
In the wake of the Cass Report, the hordes are now looking for a face-saving way to recant
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
ULEZ if you want to
Looking back at a week of villains, like Queen Victoria, and heroes, like Dehenna Davison
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