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
Under the gun
Government to tally veteran suicides for the first time
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
Have cake, hate cake
The Sun-Chancellor is having his cake, and hating himself for eating it
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
The classroom culture war
Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time
The Austrian solution
Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing
Oblige sans noblesse
Our future King is doing more practical good on the housing crisis than the Government
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Pay no attention
In the rush to blame tech companies, we forget the ultimate threat to free speech comes from the state