Tristram Shandy
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it