Young People
Hard lessons in life
Novel gender identities and orientations allow people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship
Record vacancies? That sounds like a “you” problem
Tim Chapman goes back to work — briefly
Tick tock for TikTok
The platform is endangering young people
Corecore and cultural fragmentation
Young people are picking through the rubble of old aesthetics
The dilution of trauma
Exaggerating emotional struggles weakens our resilience
Should young people emigrate?
Peter Hitchens is wrong about the prospects for right-wingers
How Britain became a gerontocracy
Tory short-termism has worn itself out
What has gone wrong with our universities?
A warts and all look at British higher education
Let’s be Frankl
The importance of meaning
Young conservatives need a voice
We have been ignored for too long
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
