Keir Starmer
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform