Tessa Keswick
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
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
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
