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Spotlight on the Black Country
BBC on the Black Country and on the passing of Michael Parkinson
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
