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A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Labour could cause irreversible damage in government
Don’t give Keir Starmer a blank cheque to rewrite British society
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
No party for female voters
Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
It should have been Jezza
A neutral and unbiased guide to persecuting the problematic
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss