Mental Health
Being a snowflake is bad for your mental health
The injustice of social justice theory raises barriers
Calm down, dear
The grim history of portraying women as mentally unstable
You probably don’t have PTSD
The danger of self-diagnosis
Psychosis in an age of surveillance capitalism
Can an app help treat mental health issues?
The Lockdown Lobotomy
The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
Degrees of Mental Illness
Cassandra Russell on the university students who game the system by self-diagnosing as psychologically unwell
How the lockdown restored my mental health
The message from a nagging government is unexpectedly liberating
Healing power of outdoors
Alexander Larman reviews The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman
Culture Coaches
As The Critic enters into the podcasting business, Dominic Green surveys the world of motivational, self-affirming podcasts
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
