Critical Mash
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
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
