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He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
The EHRC delivers
Women’s rights campaigners have been vindicated… for now
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
Gays against the conversion therapy ban
Gay men oppose these proposals not in spite of being gay, but because they are gay
On trial for a Bible tweet
Finnish MP’s case could set a precedent for “unacceptable” beliefs across Europe
The pimps next door
The feminist fix: End sex trade by squeezing the local demand
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
