Salena Godden
The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
