Pep Guardiola
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)