Cowardice in high places
When the Archbishop of Canterbury can advocate the removal of church monuments, a great legacy of huge national importance is under threat
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
