Gerard Lynton
Gerard Lynton is a Critic contributor
The censor returns
New Lord Chamberlains are policing the stage with puritan zeal
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
