Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
Studio: Victorian graveyards in London
The Magnificent Seven: a testament to the eclectic pomp and sometime mawkish piety of Victorian good taste
Studio: The English Baroque
Great architecture emerges as much from tension as coherence
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
Studio: UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
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Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
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Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?