Fast Food
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
American nightmare
Lisa Hilton reluctantly samples a Five Guys burger in Milan and regrets it
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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
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families