Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald is a senior civil servant and an amateur historian of endurance fell running.
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
How can we talk about male violence now?
Our discourse should be a lot more honest and a lot more serious
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty