Archives
Use your words, Will
The feminist fix: Smith’s rationale is too close for comfort for many survivors of domestic abuse
Putin the abuser
Terrifying parallels emerge between domestic violence and the Ukraine invasion
Caution is killing compassion
If we go looking for problematic speech, we’ll probably find it
The Critic Books Podcast: The Golden Rule
In discussion with novelist Amanda Craig about her latest book
China is the only real victor in Ukraine
A frightening new autocratic international order is taking shape
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
April: Letters to the Editor
Edinburgh University is dependent on Chinese money
Who actually got Brexit done?
Mark Francois’s Brexit book is a timely corrective to the Cummings narrative
In Sparta: how Brexit happened
ERG leaders, and Rob Hutton, reflect on how the Tories almost collapsed over MV3
Metamorphosen (Chandos)
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
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
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
