Media Bias
Sex, New Scientist and me
How I learned to stop worrying and criticise the magazine
The unreliable auntie
Why does the BBC so often fail to inform?
The media won’t protect your freedom
Why was the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce ignored?
A plagiarism success story?
Whatever happened to due diligence
A moral panic that should have been spiked
The needle spiking epidemic was a media invention
Twitter 2.0 and the revolt of the public
Martin Gurri predicted Musk’s populism
The rites of Spring
The pandemic’s chief fact checker is failing to grasp the realities of the post-covid era
Pride and shame at the Beeb
The BBC needs more balance on gender issues
#MeToo and the death of subversive art
We need culture that takes thematic risks
The New York Times cannot stop misrepresenting the law
It has become an embarrassment
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
