Higher Education
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
