Satire
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
