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Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
My days as a Chinese spy
A mysterious 72 hours in Hong Kong for a lucrative lobbying job ended up being something much more sinister…
Russians … thousands of them!
Labour goes bear hunting for oligarchs
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
Black and blue
The feminist fix: Make the Sarah Everard inquiry a statutory investigation of internalised police misogyny
Cop out
Calling abusive policemen “monsters” relieves them of accountability
You can’t ride two horses
It’s time to make the office of attorney general a non-political public appointment
Crepuscular perfection
There’s a new Tuscan restaurant in town — and it’s a success
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
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains