A Level Results
Getting school history wrong
The myth of British educational parochialism
What’s the point of grades?
We need to rethink exam results as indicators of personal achievement
Making the grade
View from Oxford: there may be lessons to be learned from this year’s fiasco
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
A-level results: an A* in confusion
A-level debacle epitomises the government’s farcical handling of schools throughout the pandemic
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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 resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna