The film Friendship comes at a time of peak male mental health crisis. Starring Tim Robinson as Craig, a lovably weird and increasingly unhinged suburban dad, the movie is driven by his obsession...

Officers say they arrested a 22-year-old Iranian in Acocks Green in Birmingham earlier.

An employment incident last week from Lancashire was both entirely predictable and at the same time deeply disturbing. Simon Pearson, an English teacher at FE institution Preston College…

Usually, it’s in the interests of opinion writers — or people like me, who’d be described better as opinionated writers — to be right. That is basically the whole reason for these pieces to exist…

Algorithms have come in for a lot of stick in the last decade or so. They have become a permanent part of the digital landscape, shaping how we interact in and with the online world.

Filmmaker Cat White says Swim Sistas is about freedom, healing and visibility.

Whilst I am going to attempt it, I must admit it’s hard to criticise the government’s changes to voter ID when you consider the system we had before. When Boris Johnson’s government passed the…

Two years ago, I wrote about the scandalous reaction of staff at the University of Edinburgh to the October 7th massacre. Whilst most people were expressing shock and outrage, a vocal minority in…

Whilst I am going to attempt it, I must admit it’s hard to criticise the government’s changes to voter ID when you consider the system we had before. When Boris Johnson’s government passed the…

Karl Marx, one of the most evil men to ever live, once said: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” He said this, of course, in an ethnically homogeneous…

Liz Truss has been on good form recently, not least delighting Critic contributors at their weddings. But her words in the Telegraph yesterday marked a new high in her post-office career.

Farmers in my East Anglian corner of Britain are currently toiling to bring in the harvest. The work is, more or less, an around the clock slog now. The heat and clear skies of June…

The world’s largest university press replaced its distinctive 16th century folio stamp with a plain serif rendering of the company’s name.

For those in Northern Ireland whose only sources of local political goings-on are what elected representatives share on social media platforms, one could be forgiven for thinking that the political…

Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice could potentially trigger a wave of climate lawsuits against the United Kingdom, leaving the nation vulnerable to demands for…

Two-tier policing has become a familiar term used for the widespread suspicion that police in the UK apply inconsistent standards to different groups – a pattern often seen as symptomatic of bias or…

As a keen commentator on culture and current affairs, few things spark joy more than coming up with easy solutions to difficult problems, which the usual gaggles of so-called “experts” have missed.