Antonín Panenka
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
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
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said