Artillery Row
The Great Game
Professor Jeremy Black on the 19th century cold war over Asia between Russian and Britain
Theodora: an over-fussy feminist failure
With productions this bad, it is no surprise that nobody cares about opera
Sons of no one
Father absence plus porn addiction puts boys behind bars
The Critic Books Podcast: Burntcoat
Burntcoat was one of the first “pandemic novels” to be published in the wake of Covid-19
Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
End womb trafficking
The feminist fix: Normalising surrogacy means dehumanising women
Stay in your lane
Hyundai will think twice before its next political activist tweet
Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Free trade is worth billions
Ministers need to send Brexit modelers back to re-do their sums
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
