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NEW: The Critic Sunday read — what biscuits were eaten at Chequers on Thursday
The great international student scandal
With an ever-higher number of foreign postgraduates not even turning up for their courses, some universities are not selling an education, but a visa
The destiny of cult thinking
Dark similarities with the Soviet moral void are already on the rise
The mythical lazy British worker
Time to stop demeaning young Britons
Liberty, fraternity, animosity
The right-wing turn in France
A college in tune with the times
How music colleges need to adjust to the twenty-first century
Let children’s books be children’s books
Literary hyper-analysis can do more harm than good
Holocaust Memorial Day and Christian lament
We should remember the Shoah with more than vague talk of “values”
In defence of medical heretics
Pronouns, schisms and the GLADD Charter
The Major problem
What is his legacy — if, indeed, he has one
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy