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Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
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?
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
