Graham Stewart

Jul 24, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Graham Stewart

Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term This article is taken from the August-September 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. The Starmer government’s first great triumph is already proclaimed: Labour’s return to dominance in Scotland ensures the survival of the United Kingdom. It’s not a wholly implausible claim.

Jun 8, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Graham Stewart

This article is taken from the June 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Travelling through newly independent Burma in 1952, Norman Lewis concluded that the country:has freed itself from Western domination almost with the ease of removing an unwanted garment.

Mar 19, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Graham Stewart

A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education Like all the best radical, insurgent voices, The Critic first saw its audience at a party in a Mayfair ballroom. For the second time in our five years of life, we decided to launch an issue with an event. Thus, earlier this month, the Universities in Crisis special number debuted in front of an invited audience in Cambridge.

Apr 8, 2023 | thecritic.co.uk | Graham Stewart

Violence and intimidation stalk Jerusalem this Easter Violence once again accompanies the observance of Easter, Ramadan and Passover in the Holy Land: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel have been met with Israeli Defence Force reprisals; the barricades are up in the Al-Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount; two British-Israeli sisters have been killed in the West Bank; a Palestinian car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv killed one tourist and injured seven more.

Mar 6, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Graham Scotland |Graham Stewart

By Graham StewartBBC ScotlandThe BBC is celebrating 100 years in Scotland, with the anniversary of the first broadcast from Glasgow on 6 March 1923. Here we look at some the events from the past 100 years in 10 photos. 5SC CallingThis is Herbert Carruthers, director of the BBC's first radio station in Scotland, speaking into the microphone.