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#IWentToStateSchool. So what?
The middle-class appropriation of a well-intentioned campaign
Critic Columnist Suspended
Our fearless woke columnist has been mistaken for an evil right-wing satirist
Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Disclaimer: Mel Brooks is cancelled
HBO attempts to protect snowflakes from Blazing Saddles
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
Raphael & Rome after Lockdown
For art lovers, now is the perfect time to visit The Eternal City
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
“E” for effort
Exams fiasco: Gavin Williamson has failed
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
