Camouflage
The menace of camouflage
There’s something dark about the spread of sartorial concealment to civilians
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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
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
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
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless