DJ Taylor
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
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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
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion