An Admissions Don
The Critic has withheld the author’s identity because his views are incompatible with his career
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
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Composed and electrifying
Klaus Tennstedt: The Radio Broadcasts (Doremi, 4CDs)
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others