Critical Mash
The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
Film and music theatre
A marriage made in heaven, or one heading for the rocks?
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Troublesome women
Rebellious heroines and unscrupulous heroes
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes