Staff Shortages
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut