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Walking the path of the stupidly rich
Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality
Fall into the gin trap
Nothing is better than a clean spirit
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
In conversation with Laura Dodsworth
Should social media channels be scrutinised for hosting material which promotes gender transition?
The Critic Books Podcast: Portable Magic
Lucasta Miller discusses Emma Smith’s new book
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
Since when did Stonewall side with bullies?
The feminist fix: When they push, you push back just as hard
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think