Ed Miliband
Playing politics
The Critic’s crack team of writers take you through the latest video games, inspired by real events
Ed Miliband’s undimmed Green zealotry
Labour insiders are concerned by the energy secretary
We are on the brink of blackouts
The establishment must wake up to the scale of British energy insecurity
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
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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
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation