Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
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