Cult
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The Critic Books Podcast: Cult writers
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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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
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
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
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety