Podcast
The Road to the Cass Review — (4) Keira Bell and Paul Conrathe
The dark realities of gender medicine come to light
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
The Road to the Cass Review — (1) Dr Michael Biggs
The foundational myths of gender medicine
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
