Don’t fall for the Oxbridge Master’s
For all the hype, it can be of minor significance
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat