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Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Fact or Fiction: an introductory guide
As the misrepresentations in The Crown call for historical dramas to be clearer in their creative license, Romeo Coates offers a brieg guide to fact and fiction in drama
Lo! He comes with clouds descending
The news is Good and should be celebrated
Linked but not combined
In sentiment – if not in its detail – the deal echoes Churchill’s vision for Britain and Europe
What’s in the Brexit deal?
Four things the ERG’s ‘star chamber’ will need to consider before voting for the Brexit deal
Brexit deal agreed
ERG prepare their lawyers to scrutinise the text of the deal
Christmas shows us why lives are worth saving
Like the ancient world, we have an inability to explain or even value ourselves
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
Happy Holidays?
View from Oxford: a year in woke
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
