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Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
Supreme maestro
Watching Lord Pannick QC addressing 11 justices of the Supreme Court is like watching one of the great maestros conducting a symphony orchestra
The real tragedy of Ayers Rock
The ban on climbing Australia’s most famous landmark will do nothing to help the Aborigines it purports to protect
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
Ghostly good taste
Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
Welcome to The Critic
The opinions which govern modern Britain should be seen as such — opinions. We will drag them kicking and screaming into public view
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
