Robert Hutton
Robert Hutton is The Critic's parliamentary sketchwriter, and the author of Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter, Romps, Tots & Boffins, and, Would They Lie To You? He tweets at @RobDotHutton
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes