Localism
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
