Grayson Perry
Misguided and muddled
By inviting listeners to admit their complicity, Eshun failed utterly to make his case
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature