Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
