Robin Holloway
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive