Birkenstocks
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
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
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another