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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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The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
Wrong but it’s Right
Durham student sex training is Thatcher’s legacy
A sea of staring eyes
Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning
The man who took the wrong flat white
We urgently need new rules for modern social etiquette
TikTok time bomb
Schools across the UK have been targeted by anonymous TikTok accounts where pupils rate and defame their teachers
Life Between Islands
The Tate’s exhibition shows Caribbean-British art from the Windrush to the present day
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
Modern poetry: I too, dislike it
T. S. Eliot would despair at this year’s shortlist for the prize in his name
2022: What can we say?
Weaponised words can only decrease in value
The New Appeasement
Why giving in to Russia is a bigger mistake than Munich
Cruel to be kind
Validating everyone’s wishes leaves us prone to outbreaks of self-indulgence