What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?
Is the lockdown causing more problems than it is solving?
And how much longer can Britain’s WWII commemorations endure into the future?
Britain’s armed forces to the rescue?
And is Scottish Labour still relevant for Starmer’s Labour Party?
Can parliament work by Zoom?
And are universities in crisis?
Debating the Covid-19 Lockdown
Toby Young and Kapil Komireddi on this week’s podcast debating the costs of the Covid-19 Lockdown
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
Where is God?
James Orr on how the Church is facing-up to Coronavirus
Podcast on Prepping
Oliver Wiseman reports back from a Prepper camp in West Virginia
The many women of George Orwell
Orwell’s biographer reveals all in this week’s Podcast
Don’t tell us the truth!
Richard Waghorne says the Blitz spirit means suppressing information about Corona
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
