learning
An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
