Culture
Thoughts on the BBC: Reflections of a conservative historian
Jeremy Black ponders the place of the BBC
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
Culture Coaches
As The Critic enters into the podcasting business, Dominic Green surveys the world of motivational, self-affirming podcasts
Is Jane Austen getting a bum deal?
As the new Emma comes to cinema screens, Alexander Larman considers the innumerable Austen remakes over the past 25 years
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
Oscars so woke?
Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards
A belly full of agitpropera
Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
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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
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?