Satire
Birthday bash
Claudia Savage-Gore frets over how best to entertain a troop of 10-year-olds
How YouTube lost its fun
There’s a difference between maturing and betraying who you were
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
Adverts: social justice education
Take that patriarchy!
Remix revolution
How fan-led innovation is transforming music
Record vacancies? That sounds like a “you” problem
Tim Chapman goes back to work — briefly
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
The secret diary of Adrian Chiles (aged 55 11/12ths)
A glimpse of genius at work
Double rapists can be ladies too
Only a bigot would deny Isla’s lived experience
A conversation with CRITIC1
Meet our new chatbot
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
