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Letting go for God
Selfhood begins with a walking away
Contemplating infinity
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Steinway)
Catching a mermaid
The LGB Alliance judgment is a victory for open debate
Asking the right questions about race
If racial disparities don’t equate to racism, then what does explain it?
The people’s captain
What our politics can learn from Kevin Sinfield
The smugness of pseudo-centrism
Betware of those who dress their preferences up as simple realism
The ban that wasn’t
The “conversion therapy” ban is the product of misleading memes
Why Mermaids lost
There is no right to avoid criticism
Rain on the parade
Reflections on a colourful month
How to stop banks’ new social credit system
We need new legislation to force banks to respect free speech
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
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 problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes