Realpolitik
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved