Stay Alert
Normal politics resumes
From Hard Brexit to Soft Lockdown, Boris Johnson is keeping most of his natural support with him
Stay alert – because we fear change
The narrative of Tory callousness is re-emerging
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
