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Run for your life
Nick Cohen says the new normal must be built for people, not cars
Anti-China syndrome
Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
A rose for a tight spot
Hephzibah Anderson scents success in a pot
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
The welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
The disarming power of restraint
He showed how the essential prerequisite for greatness is humility
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications