Whites and wrongs
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Cultural Violence and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press)
Criminal insanity
Nigel Biggar reviews Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, by John Lloyd
Not just democracy
Hong Kong protestors are fighting for British-style institutions
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The handmaid’s fail
Margaret Atwood trashes her legacy
The new female ascendency
How will society be changed by the over-production of female graduates?
My Body: a lesson in self-awareness
It would be easy to deride Emily Ratajowski as a hypocrite, but there is something deeper underneath her famous looks
Did women in academia cause wokeness?
More women means more censorship, more discrimination, more advocacy — and less debate
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
Good-natured amateurishness
British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness
Modern poetry: I too, dislike it
T. S. Eliot would despair at this year’s shortlist for the prize in his name
Happy New Keir!
Starmer channels his Mr Darcy
The pimps next door
The feminist fix: End sex trade by squeezing the local demand
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse