Culture
The beauty of Brutalism
Durham’s concrete masterpiece needs love, not the wrecking ball
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
