Satire
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
The geopolitical prescience of Handel
On opera’s flirtation with current affairs
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
