Elites
Has Britain gone mad?
The myth of fighting conspiracy theories can be as comforting as the real thing
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The suffocating blandness of elite fashion
Leaders should dress like leaders
The men who hate cars
I’ve had enough of White Paper Mansplainers
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Why standards matter
Take off your trainers, Mr Peston
Our pagan forebears deserve more respect
At least they had a grip on human nature
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
Bromides of the expert class
Question intellectual authority
Democracy without a demos
We have to overcome post-1989 illusions
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
