Great Lives
When Great Lives grates
Tales of lives lived well, or disgracefully, are always interesting, but what makes a good obit?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here