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
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan