The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Restless zeal of the insomniac emperor
There is something uncanny about the story of Justinian
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
