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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
Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Holy baloney
Marcus Walker prays for episcopal consistency
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
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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
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven