Lucy Popescu
Lucy Popescu is a writer and critic
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
