Margaret Willes
Margaret Willes’s most recent book is The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn (Yale University Press).
A thoughtful old-fashioned rambler
George Orwell’s gardening prowess comes as a surprise
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce