A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Beware of the K-Hype
The strange state of the States
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
