Let’s stop wrapping our children in cotton wool
As questions are now being raised about the consequences of having shut playgrounds during lockdown, Joanna Williams says that we need to let kids be kids
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
