A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
