Alexander Paul
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state