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Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
The EHRC delivers
Women’s rights campaigners have been vindicated… for now
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
Gays against the conversion therapy ban
Gay men oppose these proposals not in spite of being gay, but because they are gay
On trial for a Bible tweet
Finnish MP’s case could set a precedent for “unacceptable” beliefs across Europe
The pimps next door
The feminist fix: End sex trade by squeezing the local demand
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
Decoloniser heal thyself
Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?