Dorian Gray
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Moroccan gold
Enjoy some of the finest food ever eaten at the exquisite Farasha Farmhouse
