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The unheard lessons of howling feedback
Separating the signal from the noise
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
Tinker, Tailor, Rayner, Raab
From Lebedev to Corbyn — Tories and Labour trade blows on the company they have kept
Nadine Dorries is watching you
The Online Safety Bill threatens basic liberties
Why is prostitution being pushed on young trans people?
The feminist fix: Stop pretending that the sex trade is a world of queer self-expression
Putin’s terror war
Campaign Diary: why is Russia threatening chemical and nuclear strikes?
The Critic Books Podcast: Roaring Girls
The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines
The trans fairy tale
Pink News is shamelessly exploiting the “authentic self” to sell mastectomies to young people
Charitably correct
Appointing Orlando Fraser would challenge the establishment’s grip on the quangocracy
Studio: The English Baroque
Great architecture emerges as much from tension as coherence
Most Read
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
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within