Woke
Why does ITV insist that violence against women is normal?
Bruce Newsome says that an elite obsessed with social justice is failing at criminal justice
The Mumford memory hole
The parallels between the latest incident of cancel culture and George Orwell’s 1984 are uncanny
The Aztec revival in California’s public schools
In an attempt to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, California may vote to promote the celebration of pre-Christian deities who often performed human sacrifice
Serving the regime: The case of Deloitte’s Dimple Agarwal
Deloitte’s former chief of ‘diversity and inclusion’ ended up a victim of the same steamrollering cultural movement she tried so hard to promote
Star Wars goes woke
Racist cats in racist hats, Star Wars goes woke and a quick guide to cancelling a conservative
Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney
The Muppet Show’s widened appeal has become Disney’s Achilles’ heel as the puppet show becomes the latest victim of cancel culture
No place at the bar for challenging woke politics
The Bar Council’s verdict on Jon Holbrook’s cancellation last month shows that the bar has become an unwelcoming place for those who believe in free speech
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
Are knitted jumpers racist?
Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
