Education
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Talking to young men about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Against Michaela multiculturalism
The school does not offer a successful model of integration for Britain
Badenoch’s guidance is a classic Tory fudge
It clarifies far less than it leaves confused
The myth of academic meritocracy
An awful lot of talent and experience is about to be wasted
Against sacrificing academic excellence
Proposed changes could exacerbate threats to the free pursuit of knowledge
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them