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
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
The curse of “TERF”
The term is intended to dehumanise dissenting women
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
Sue her
A mad week of misgendering, arson, and Wetherspoons coming out
What does surrogacy say about us?
We are putting the interests of adults above those of children
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
Neither “side” can offer peace to the holy land
The logic of partisanship turns lethal when it comes to Gaza
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
