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The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
I miss the old BBC
The BBC has lost its way and things have to change
Spare me the hashtag feminism
The feminist fix: Tweets are no substitute for making real change
I don’t protest for my health
Kill the bill to save democracy — not self care routines
It was absurd we accepted lockdown
It isn’t just the parties that should make us so angry, but the draconian restrictions themselves
Bye bye BBC
Why it’s time for Auntie to say goodnight
The dog it was that tried
Buzz! Operation Operation is inoperable
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Beating the Blob
You could be forgiven for thinking Labour won the election
Vibe check: lit or cheugy? #fyp
Zarah Sultana and the rise of the MP influencer
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
