Emma D’Arcy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
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
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
