Artillery Row
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Star stuck
Should we still care about Michelin stars?
Imperial misdemeanours
Getting at the truth about T H Huxley
The charity-industrial complex strikes again
Why is the government paying for the privilege of being prosecuted by lefty lobbyists?
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people