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Bob Dylan biopic: tangled up in true
Afterwards, we can explain to them why it’s got all the details completely wrong
Napoleon sold short
On Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and the challenge of biopics
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks