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Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight