Joe Manchin
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
