Scullionbait
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
