Alexander Paul
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny