Eton College
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
The perils of privilege
Musa Okwonga’s memoir about his time at Eton is a confused account of having access to everywhere but belonging nowhere
Eton needs to be led by a headmaster, not a social activist
Simon Henderson’s top-down revolution at Eton has lost the trust of too many parents, staff, and donors for him to remain in place
Braving the woke mob is a prisoner’s dilemma
Nicholas Shackel, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Cardiff, explains how to turn the prisoner’s dilemma into the free speaker’s game
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
Etone for your sins
“Vulva owners”, Eton’s woke head master, and the BBC’s hagiography of BLM
Is the malaise at Eton symptomatic of something wider?
Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
The best of Heads
Sir Eric Anderson employed the best and let them get on with it
Rescue specialist
He had a particular skill with those who had fallen foul of the system
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
