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Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
Dead men wave no flags
UK must not allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine
Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
My days as a Chinese spy
A mysterious 72 hours in Hong Kong for a lucrative lobbying job ended up being something much more sinister…
Russians … thousands of them!
Labour goes bear hunting for oligarchs
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
Black and blue
The feminist fix: Make the Sarah Everard inquiry a statutory investigation of internalised police misogyny
Cop out
Calling abusive policemen “monsters” relieves them of accountability
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
