Artillery Row
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
Why should young people join the Army?
It should hardly be surprising that recruitment and retention are too low
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
High art or high camp?
Elektra, Royal Opera House
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
Resisting the gender Goliath
Why the Post Office story resonated with gender-critical feminists
Something in the Bath water
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
Sherlock Holmes and the BBC bias
Eamonn Holmes will get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to his career
Keep the cops out of our minds
Silent thoughts should never be prohibited
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
