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The Critic Books Podcast: Burntcoat
Burntcoat was one of the first “pandemic novels” to be published in the wake of Covid-19
Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
End womb trafficking
The feminist fix: Normalising surrogacy means dehumanising women
Stay in your lane
Hyundai will think twice before its next political activist tweet
Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Free trade is worth billions
Ministers need to send Brexit modelers back to re-do their sums
The asexual lingerie model and other modern mysteries
Why sex-positivity is anti-sex
The end of the story
Boris may escape punishment, but he will still have to answer to the public
Wedlocked
Why the Government squeamishness on mentioning marriage?
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
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 decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him