Robert Hutton
Robert Hutton is The Critic's parliamentary sketchwriter, and the author of Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter, Romps, Tots & Boffins, and, Would They Lie To You? He tweets at @RobDotHutton
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government