Podcast
All of the podcasts from The Critic: our weekly podcast, The Critic Narrated, The Critic Books Podcast, and Black's History Week
Why are men dressing so badly?
Joseph Connolly gives men a dressing down in our latest podcast
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC
The new culture minister airs his views on auntie
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation