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Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The limits of localism
Why Andy Burnham’s localism agenda has a lot more to do with rhetoric than reality
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber