Lashings of child-murder
Our reviewer enjoys two very different approaches to killing
A straightforward triumph
Mary Page Marlowe is a subtle, elliptical and affecting piece of work. Cyrano de Bergerac is straightforwardly a triumph
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth