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Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
Do the right thing
Doubling down will end the Tories as a party of government
Sue Gray’s inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief
The Conservatives should be put out of their misery
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
The day #FBPE delusions died
Europeans have shifted rightwards — and no one should be surprised
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
A last chance at class
Labour is running out of time to put working class MPs into parliament
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
