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My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
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
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated