I regret to inform you …
An Admissions Don at a major British university lays bare the quota-driven process of student selection and imagines what honest acceptance and rejection letters may look like
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
