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Is levelling up the answer to Britain’s problems?
Adrian Pabst, Alys Denby and Imogen Sinclair discuss Gove’s plan with Sebastian Milbank
Every story tells a picture
Convenient clichés make for poor foreign policy
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
March: Letters to the Editor
Jonathan Meades’ attack on the Welsh language misunderstands its history
The riddle of Brexit’s ruthless survivor
Michael Crick casts Farage as an almost vampiric figure, draining the life from others to sustain his decades of dominance
Boris banks on his support
Whispers about Russian gold breach Westminster’s united front
Putin and the new global order
An older worldview makes a triumphant return, and splits the American right
The Critic Books Podcast: Devotion
A story of love in nineteenth century Prussia and Australia
Cressida Dick’s toxic legacy
The Met can’t be left to clean up its own mess
Bodies for sale
The feminist fix: Sexual harassment will never end if men can pay for it
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
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing