Wittington Investments
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism