Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
Bragg shows what is possible
A show worth the licence fee by itself
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Sack the lot at rotten Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is drowning in a puddle of self-willed mediocrity
An American’s excellent essays
A set of fine programmes on the American bohemians who brought to life a great city on the cusp of significant change
When Great Lives grates
Tales of lives lived well, or disgracefully, are always interesting, but what makes a good obit?
Clearly raising the tone
What makes the perfect radio voice?
Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
