The Critics
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal