Comedy
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
I love a “dream home” nightmare
What disasters will strike the family next? You almost expect a tsunami
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
