Podcast
David Starkey on the role of Parliament
Is Parliament a check on the executive or its enabler?
Why are men dressing so badly?
Joseph Connolly gives men a dressing down in our latest podcast
Culture Coaches
As The Critic enters into the podcasting business, Dominic Green surveys the world of motivational, self-affirming podcasts
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC
The new culture minister airs his views on auntie
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
