Culture
Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
The irrational theatre
The state of the National Theatre is tragic indeed
The arts are being crippled by conformity
A new report shows that the last place to find rebellion is the arts world
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
The joys of the jumbo breakfast roll
Forget health for a moment and embrace grease and flavour
The establishment does not know what multiculturalism means
It requires tremendous knowledge and compromise — not just an understanding of different cuisines
The hidden depths of Saudi soft power
The Saudis are taking culture more seriously than one might think
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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
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership