Unity
How united is Italy?
Professor Jeremy Black and Political Editor Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity
Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Ongoing lessons from the Battle of Warsaw
After the Miracle at the Vistula, a Miracle at the Oder?
Evelyn Waugh was right: British politics went wrong in the 1920s
Why do Waugh’s political works remain either caricatured or ignored?
What’s new for the presidential debates?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss the upcoming presidential debates
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
AA Gill wouldn’t have a hope in hell of winning his own award
Gill was one of the last of a breed of writers who wrote without looking over his shoulder
Keep your luxury hotels
It’s the cheap and cheerful taverns that offer a home for any traveller
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future