Utopia
William Golding and the curse of the dream
We must resist the lure of utopianism
Rodent utopia
Dropping out of the rat race
Britain must embrace the 40k mindset
Forget goblin mode, say goodbye to global Britain, and embrace your inner Ork
Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
