Fraud
Castaneda the sorcerer
Hoaxer, fraud … prophet?
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia
The numbers game has incentivised bad behaviour
Fake it ’til you break it
Tech’s dangerous cult of genius
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy