Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Out with the Old Masters?
Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
Opening up the British Museum
Honesty about how exhibits were acquired is a necessary first step in addressing our imperial past
Battle of the bells and the boutique hotel
Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing