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
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
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
