Morality
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
Obstacle courts
Who benefited from prolonging the Battersbee case?
The real benefits of loyalty and order
Evocation of a more hopeful culture lost is both the book’s strength and weakness
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
Ethics men
Opera directors are utilising programme books to purvey their moral and ethical wisdom
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
