The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
The Critic books of the year
Reading highlights from our editors and contributors
December letters
Stuffed ballot boxes, menaced Baltic countries and Tory tearaways who came good
Silent night
The agony of global Christianity goes unheard in the West
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
