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Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
GB News must save itself from itself
The channel can do important work if it gets out of its own way
The climate lobby is losing control
The public is turning against the consequences of a reckless green agenda
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
How Net Zero is weakening the West
Statecraft takes steel, not just high-minded aspirations
A straightforward triumph
Mary Page Marlowe is a subtle, elliptical and affecting piece of work. Cyrano de Bergerac is straightforwardly a triumph
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
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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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer