Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman was the US Editor of The Critic from 2019 to 2021. He tweets at @ollywiseman
Whose side is Tulsi Gabbard on?
A pro-Assad, anti-war presidential candidate unsettles her Democratic rivals
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended