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Schreker, Korngold, Krenek (BIS)
Nicola’s novel? Just say no
There are far worse celebrity writers than Nicola Sturgeon — that doesn’t make her a novelist
Ireland turns to the looney left
The Irish presidential election betrays a divided country where many feel left behind
Battlegrounds of knowledge
A new conference raises the alarm over academic freedom
The last prime minister?
Keir Starmer represents the failure of a whole social order
TRAs are still partying like it’s 2019
The law has changed, but it hasn’t yet shifted university culture
The lost world, and lives, of the countryside
Through losing ground and regulation of wildfowl, their world will change
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
My beef with football burgers
From ersatz meat we are turning to ersatz ersatz meat
A straightforward triumph
Mary Page Marlowe is a subtle, elliptical and affecting piece of work. Cyrano de Bergerac is straightforwardly a triumph
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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
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
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
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water