Podcast
Can parliament work by Zoom?
And are universities in crisis?
Debating the Covid-19 Lockdown
Toby Young and Kapil Komireddi on this week’s podcast debating the costs of the Covid-19 Lockdown
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
Where is God?
James Orr on how the Church is facing-up to Coronavirus
Podcast on Prepping
Oliver Wiseman reports back from a Prepper camp in West Virginia
The many women of George Orwell
Orwell’s biographer reveals all in this week’s Podcast
Don’t tell us the truth!
Richard Waghorne says the Blitz spirit means suppressing information about Corona
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
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
The delusions of “consent”
We can be too willing to believe in people’s willingness
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
