Coal
The Miners’ Last Stand
Fifty years ago, the miners took on a Conservative Government and won
A principled non-resignation
Does Trudy Harrison still think opponents of the coal mine are in cloud cuckoo land?
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
