Daniel Francis
Notes on suicide
The assisted dying debate had the incongruous air of a garden party
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay