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No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
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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
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
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future