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Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
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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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
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
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe