Create Streets
Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
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
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)