Francesca Peacock
Francesca Peacock is the Deputy Online Editor of The Critic. She tweets at @cesca_peacock
The life-long genius of Sickert
There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings
Resisting the gender Goliath
Why the Post Office story resonated with gender-critical feminists
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)