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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain