The Critic - 1 Apr 2025
Spring music special
HOW TO FIX THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC CRISIS
ENGLISH MUSIC BEYOND HANDEL’S SHADOW
PAUL SIMON AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
IN DEFENCE OF EXCELLENCE
IN DEFENCE OF EXCELLENCE
THIS MONTH’S COVER IS
Don’t blame Islam for grooming gangs
Hypocrisy: the crack beneath Ireland’s craic
Haydn Middleton on the consummate singer-songwriter still delighting his fans at the age of 83
What really makes us British?
Seriously funny
Clusters’ last stand
America’s great foundation myths
Musical morphine
Beatrice Scudeler: Mothers, Children and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity
Marcus Walker: Do nations have ethics?
Titania McGrath: Homosexuality is transphobic
Christopher Montgomery: The man who poisons the well
Drawing Britain’s new frontier
The song-and-dance men
No place like home
Dying to save the NHS
Universities must face the music
David Butterfield: Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age
Minoo Dinshaw: Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
Edward Howell: Bad Education: Why our universities are broken and how we can fix them
Sebastian Milbank: What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea
Yuan Yi Zhu: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
Daniel Johnson: My Early Life: A Roving Commission
Ben Sixsmith: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
Stephen Bayley: George Ciancimino
Handel’s London
Helen Joyce
Woman about Town
Peston’s inbox
Serious business
Too much of a good thing
Everyday Lies
Arty Types
Romeo Coates
Nicholas Morton: Frederick Barbarossa
Letters
John Self: Booker candidates
BOOKS
Eating Out
Charles Saumarez Smith
Stephen Pollard enjoys the fun and
Style
Hot House
Eating In
Drink
Art House
Deluxe
Robert Thicknesse
Norman Lebrecht
Anne McElvoy
Michael Prodger
Sarah Ditum
Robert Hutton
Adam LeBor
Ben Sixsmith
Michael Henderson
Country Notes
Patrick Kidd: Making America grate
Toby Young: Kill the football bill
Boris Starling: Glorious half-century
THE CRITICS
The men making the news
GET TOUGH, KEMI
QUEENLY QUANDARY
SUPERMAC ’ S TRIUMPH
The road to two-tier justice
Woman About Town
PESTON’S INBOX
Who wants to live forever?
Don’t blame Islam for grooming gangs
Homosexuality is transphobic
The man who poisons the well
Musical morphine to lull you to sleep
Why universities must face the music
It’s time to bring back the song-and-dance men
still crazy after all these years
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
WHAT REALLY MAKES US BRITISH?
TOO OFTEN, PATRIOTIC BRITONS FALL BACK ON THE MATERIAL EXPRESSIONS OF NATIONHOOD FOR THEIR IDENTITY
Dying to save the NHS
Too much of a good thing?
Seriously funny
Do countries have ethics?
Clusters’ last stand
EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE
AMERICA’S GREAT FOUNDATION MYTHS
Abigail Lamb Festival Fodder
Hypocrisy: the crack beneath Ireland’s craic
Drawing Britain’s new frontier
Adam Dant on...
Adam Dant on...
Zola: a writer unsure who he wanted to be
Courtly love
Courtly love
Michelangelo and all that
Man or superman?
Young Winston: seizing the day
Free thinking
Professor knows best
A college call to arms
The art of brotherly rivalry
Losing our religion?
Talk is deep
Booker candidates ... and also-rans
Who are the household names?
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
for all the so-called
Has Trump killed the arts centre?
Digestin’ Festen
Wildest “Dreams”
A new series about an absolute cult
Cate and cast soar in The Seagull
Cate and cast soar in The Seagull
Sci-fi satire misfire
Cyber-thriller is timely and twisty
The schools of hard knocks
Act of madness
A cathedral in the classical tradition
A cathedral in the classical tradition
Roasted Rabbit
FELIPE FERNÁNDEZARMESTO urges the British to add some petals to the pot
LISA HILTON is just not that into a restaurant on the King’s Road, Chelsea
RUFUS BIRD looks at the burgeoning art scene in Saudi Arabia
CHRISTOPHER PINCHER advises on how best to adorn a double cuff
HENRY JEFFREYS on some distinctive Austrian reds
CLAUDIA SAVAGE-GORE finds the kids’s grammar makes her SCREAM!
PATRICK GALBRAITH welcomes the return of common sense
HANNAH BETTS suggests you just be yourself
STEPHEN POLLARD on the fun and wit of racehorses’ names
Petals for the pot
Imperial reds
Lifting the veil
The missing link
Goodwill hunting
Game of the name
Just be yourself
Making me SCREAM!
MAKE THE US GRATE AGAIN
KILL THIS FOOTBALL BILL
MAKE THE US GRATE AGAIN
THE REAL KING OF LEICESTER
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