John Reith
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
