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Breaking our ranks
Woke culture poisons operational capability while Defence whittles away British forces
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
Playing with fire
Is writing a show about burns victims and the pioneering Guinea Pig Club really “appropriate”?
Wonders and warnings from the ancient world
A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire
Not sorry they haven’t a clue
Panel show politics suits the Prime Minister more than his Home Secretary
The war so far
Campaign Diary: the course of the conflict to date
The Penny drops
The feminist fix: The only way to avoid humiliation is to admit when you’ve got it wrong
Study RT as propaganda — don’t ban it
Putin’s information war won’t be defeated by censorship
The Critic Books Podcast: Edgware Road
A debut story of family mystery and intrigue — set between London, Oxford, and Karachi
Dawning continent
The West has underestimated Africa’s independent economic potential
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
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries