Activism
For a good cause?
National Lottery funding and activist organisations
Floating buildings at the Biennale
18th Venice Biennale Architettura, 20 May-26 November 2023
Cool your heels
Pink heels won’t save women
Putting politics at the heart of everything
The NHS should care about patients, not ideology
Who watches the Wikipedia editors?
The curious case of a carefully-tended article about a controversial academic
Beeb better
Against state-funded acti-journalism
“Death to the Bank of England!”
Do the origins of Mark Drakeford’s Wales experiment lie with the Green Shirts?
Announcing feminism is dead won’t kill it
The history of the gender debate is being obscured
When does protest become intimidation?
Speech, in public, must have limits
Young conservatives need a voice
We have been ignored for too long
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
