Polymath
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
