Heidi Alexander
Plane stupid
How the Heathrow fire, like everything else, proved that Richard Tice’s politics are correct
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
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
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform