The Critic Essay
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair