Satire
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
