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How can we make us all British?
Strong social norms once helped integration, but not in today’s fractured society
Accost in translation
Each new rendering must make the case for its superiority to previous versions
Island of strangers?
The decline of popular aphorisms reflects the disappearance of a shared moral code
Reform may not be able to stop the Boriswave
Boriswavers may already be citizens by the time Nigel Farage becomes PM
Why are men still in women’s prisons?
In the very places built to uphold it, the law is being flouted
Hermann Göring: Nazi environmentalist
Göring had ideas which were revolutionary for the natural environment
What Would Andy Do?
The Burnham wishlist turns out to perfectly match that of the median Labour member
Peers have no duty to vote for assisted dying
The Dignity in Dying comms chief is making a deeply misleading claim
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a bad joke
Comedians should not agree not to insult the powerful
Malice in theatreland
How activist theatre undermines the arts
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie