Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
In the public “I”
Instagram activism serves the self instead of solving the problem
Instagram vs. Brexit reality
It’s Instagram that is turning everyone and everywhere the same, not the UN, not NAFTA, not the IMF, and certainly not the EU
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
