Critical Theory
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
A classic case of missing the point
A misguided campaign to decolonise the Univerity of London’s Classics curriculum
Critical theory is dead
And theory itself has killed it
The vampire’s mirror
The Undead: Dracula 125 years on
Poetry matters
When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?
Smotherland
Millennials’ misplaced parental instincts are being inflicted on society
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
