Heiresses
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
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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
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another