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Vincent’s tragic legend restored
A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all
Debunking myths of the Great Divergence
Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
Sex is not a human right
The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction
Sheer snobbery
Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent
Failing their own
The University College Union is hounding members out of their jobs for holding gender-critical views
Guru of regurgitation
Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel
Grubbing a living
These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious
The way forward
I’m proud that Britain is known as “TERF Island”
