Archives
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
Candles in the cold
Hopeful thoughts in dark times
Venal vintages
The murky world of wine collecting
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
What church for what England?
The difficult future of the C of E
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
A plagiarism success story?
Whatever happened to due diligence
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
A moral panic that should have been spiked
The needle spiking epidemic was a media invention
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
