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Royal blush
Boycotting the Crown and handbags at dusk
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
Wheel of fortune
Are the fine margins that win championships and make careers all down to luck?
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
