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Pretendians and the crisis of the self
Why are people manufacturing indigenous heritage?
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
AI v. HR
How will artificial intelligence change corporate culture?
The meaninglessness of moderation
Compromise is not valuable in itself
DPRKino
The wonderful world of North Korean cinema
The “on behalf of ” Labour Party
It was founded as the party of working people, so why are Labour’s prospective MPs more middle-class than ever before?
Toppling Babel
How truckers took on Trudeau
For a good cause?
National Lottery funding and activist organisations
Floating buildings at the Biennale
18th Venice Biennale Architettura, 20 May-26 November 2023
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
