Cheltenham
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Elegy for a lost world
Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
October song
Anticipating the jump season
Chasing champions
Potentially winning picks for the Cheltenham Festival
Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
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 and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country