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Scotland’s brand new blasphemy law
Holyrood’s hate crime proposals are a threat to free speech
What it’s like to be cancelled
Why cancel culture has gone too far, with Toby Young, Mike Mcculloch and Nick Buckley
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled
Tolerance in America: what the resignations of Katz, Weiss & Sullivan tell us
Two journalists and an academic call for the end of censorship and intolerance
Who teaches Poles and what does Poland teach us?
Western lessons to be learnt from the Polish presidential election
Cancel Culture is coming for you
Not speaking up in the hope that it will pass you by is an illusion. It won’t save you
Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…
Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration
Thomas Cromwell’s reputation
MacCulloch and Mantel have revealed a better side to the controversial Tudor statesman
How I discovered History
Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
