Journalism
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
The blind eye turned to Barrow
What’s not newsworthy about fascists, Islamists, grooming and death threats to journalists?
Britain needs the Jewish Chronicle
The JC is halfway between a shul and a shvitz
Unfairness, libel and the future of defamation cases
A libel claim to be considered this week not only threatens the claimant’s reputation, but also the precedent of the public interest test
Good luck…
David Goodhart wishes The Critic every success
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
