The Critic
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Your part in my downfall
Hutton reflects on his unsuccessful stint as editor-in-chief of the Critic, and has determined the readers are to blame
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
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We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
How can we talk about male violence now?
Our discourse should be a lot more honest and a lot more serious
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
