The Guardian
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
You can censor, but you can’t hide
The Guardian’s redacting controversial commentary on the gender wars does a disservice to readers
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
The art of the obituarist
In the wake of the Guardian’s controversial obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, Alex Larman considers the nuances of writing obits
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Tribes of Westminster
Steve Baker MP, Christian Libertarian
Is banning conversion therapy legal?
Government plans still have serious questions of law to answer
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
More than just a grumpy anti-modernist?
It’s time we appreciated the art of Sir Alfred Munnings
What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
Stop insisting the West is as bad as Russia
Critics of the democratic world are unwittingly spouting Kremlin propaganda
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
Why are republicans such “sour-faced Puritans”?
Opponents of the monarchy are also suspected of hating Christmas, puppies and the sound of children’s laughter
The Critic Books Podcast: Cult writers
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion