Burnley
Bob Lord: butcher and visionary
Bob Lord, the chairman of Burnley FC from 1955 to 1981, had a shrewd view of how the world worked and where it was heading
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience