Minister of Aircraft Production
The battle for PPE – never was so much owed by so many to so few
Can Lord Deighton do for PPE what Lord Beaverbrook did for Spitfires?
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education