David Butterfield
David Butterfield is literary editor of The Critic
A tale of two Glastos
With ho-hum bands, faux-eco fans and sky-high prices, Glastonbury Festival has strayed far from its countercultural roots
Eurovision Highs and Eurovision Woes
It’s all good fun, and remember folks — it’s DEFINITELY not political
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
