Universities
In praise of the lecture
Face-to-face lectures can be far more illuminating than a mere video
A week in the life of a struggling academic
On the ups, downs and deeper downs of academic life
Too much of a good thing?
The administrative class in UK higher education is bloated, overpaid and arrogant
How to get ahead in academia
The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot
Bricks and mortarboards
An architect who makes a virtue of the laconic
High priests of academia
The public are reading academic output, and they don’t like what they see
The ingratitude of academia
The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent should celebrate their historic donors, not castigate them
We need higher standards for academic writing
Confused thinking and confusing prose has led to a reversible decline
Academic freedom will take individual courage
Students and academics have the responsibility to speak their minds
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy