Society
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
One rule for them
The crimes of the woke middle class come with the safety net of a judiciary that is in on the racket
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
To the bitter end
Why on earth would we want to see the same tawdry old stories endlessly re-enacted?
In the shadows of giants
Why are so many still enthralled by even the most grotesque Victoriana?
Ideology-based medicine
How the ”Science-Based Medicine” blog succumbed to the pressure of trans ideology
The giant with terra cotta feet
As July marked the one hundredth anniversary of the CCP, Alex Story examines its performance over the past fifty years
Original sin
Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera
Ties out, tattoos in
Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth
“No happiness in life”: a very Russian outlook
How endless optimism can make it difficult when confronted with unpleasant choices
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
