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Parliament Square is The Critic's political gossip columnist
No Russian money for Dom
Grieve accidentally sends begging emails to eurosceptics
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
