Postmodernism
The brave new world of Swedish education
What is “post-truth” schooling?
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester