Culture
Jugular vain
Hannah Betts artfully curates the perfect neckmess
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
Breathtaking… and empty
The formidably long run-time of Dune leaves viewers with little world-building and a lack of colour
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Juke it out
It’s Wes Anderson vs Edgar Wright in the battle for the coolest ever soundtrack
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Clubbing after Covid
The meek may inherit the Earth, but not yet
It’s time to resurrect forgiveness
The Critic Narrated: Episode Two, with Revd. Marcus Walker, Hannah Betts and Patrick Galbraith
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
