Results for "philip larkin"
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Journal de combat of the Cold War
Encounter’s cultural importance far outweighed doubts about its shadowy funding
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why ministers fail
Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ