The Trojan Horse of Stonewall
Why did the BBC give money to a pro-trans lobby group in the first place?
Why won’t the BBC debate me?
Trying to bring large, arrogant public institutions to book is exhausting
The battle for Ofcom
Ofcom is currently a bastion of woke liberal values; appointing Paul Dacre as the new head would go a long way in redressing the balance
Batting for Biden: the BBC and the US election
The BBC has been wholly partisan in its coverage of Donald Trump ever since he was elected
Keeping the lid on the BBC
Dissident voices are not being heard on the BBC, writes Robin Aitken
Thinking on inking
An intellectual tries — and fails — to find deep philosophical justifications for the modern wave of tattooing
Gandhi: what xe would have done
Seek out dissenting transphobes and punish them without mercy
High-voltage Haitink recalled
Bernard Haitink, who died last month, was a conducting master
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
WD-Govey: the tool for every job
The man with a thousand uses is deployed to sort out the cladding scandal
Qatar of Hydrogen, Saudi Arabia of Wind
Governments are gambling their economies on the Green agenda — and the people are paying
I don’t protest for my health
Kill the bill to save democracy — not self care routines
Final frontiers
Adam LeBor on two TV series that are set in border regions, that feature engaging female characters and that are beautifully filmed
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
Prisoner of conscience
Ceri Black faces prosecution for tweeting that child rapists and their enablers should be stopped
God wake ye, Merry England
The decadence and excess of the city is of a piece with puritanical restraint