James Stewart
It’s still a wonderful life
An uplifting Christmas classic never fails to move
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
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
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways