Culture
Will there ever be a good Covid protest song?
A decent lockdown protest song is about as likely as a vaccine before Christmas
Are socially distanced festivals the future of entertainment?
Appledore book festival has paved the way for Covid-friendly entertainment in the UK
The lost world of Rugby League
A new book celebrates 125 years of rugby league but shines a light on a world that the sport has left behind
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
Goodfellas at 30
‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster’.
Eugenics and the intellectual left
To what extent should we separate an artist’s work from their period, character and ideas?
Cuties: how Netflix normalised the sexualisation of children
Netflix’s latest controversy has highlighted another troubling conflict between the Right and the Left
Valentin Silvestrov: 7th symphony (Naxos)
Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
Waiting for – anything
Krapp’s last tape might these days be a collection of WhatsApps and stored Instagram images, muses Anne McElvoy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango