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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom