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Debunking the AI hype
Andrew Orlowski explores the dark roots of AI
The Palace of Westminster is falling down
Nicholas Boys Smith joins The Critic Show to discuss architecture
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The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
An interview with Steve Rubie of the 606 Club
Steve Rubie talks about his life and inspirations
Film and music theatre
A marriage made in heaven, or one heading for the rocks?
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault