Attack of the Hydies
How the Tillies and the Lillies are transforming right-wing newsrooms
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
