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The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
Erasing Irish women
There’s nothing gender-neutral about murder
Between the cerebral and the warm
University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne was the quintessential Englishman
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
Outside the Westminster bubble
The attack on Keir Starmer was not the result of Boris Johnson’s rhetoric
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates
A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook
Why I quit teacher training
Perhaps my interview ought to have prepared me: “This is a safe space”
Dissing Darth Vader
Longtime Scout leader Brian Walker paid the price for his Christian views
The villainy of J.K. Rowling
Rowling is dog-whistling to her transphobic followers by writing the exact opposite of what she thinks
The great blue north
Canadian Tories are not just electing a new leader — they’re fighting over the soul of their party
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
