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Do we need a trade deal with the US?
Now is the time for the UK to reassess priorities
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
Messi to Aston Villa?
The joyous anarchy of football transfer gossip
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism
Who’s afraid of populism
The Tories cannot escape their base
Birth of a four decade nightmare
Time and again, Afghanistan has found its future decided from afar
Rhyme of the times
Within six weeks of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, most of Europe was at war
The right to be reserved
Not everybody wants to open up
Bad camp
These days, Pride is a real drag
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
