Ricky Gervais
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted