Satire
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
