Love, work and whimsy
MacDonald Gill’s poster for the Empire Marketing Board helped promote a nation at the height of its powers
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar
Full of events and individuals worthy of toasting for every day of the year
No one expects the EU Inquisition
The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state
Long players
As long as the fans are alive, it seems that a band can keep going
Courts shouldn’t ban clinical treatments
This is a win for common sense, not the trans lobby
Mugged by misrepresentation
Mark Humphrys faces the loss of his university post, if the online mob succeeds in engineering another academic dismissal on thinly-veiled political grounds
Oblige sans noblesse
Our future King is doing more practical good on the housing crisis than the Government
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
TikTok time bomb
Schools across the UK have been targeted by anonymous TikTok accounts where pupils rate and defame their teachers
Old school ties
Fates in this unforgiving industry are long decided
Martyrs of the new religion
If transgenderism is a postmodern quasi-religion, then today is its most holy day
Bollocks to Babel
The Erasmus scheme is a political project not designed to work well academically
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east