King Lear
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
King Leer
Johnson is approaching the Raving On A Heath stage of his leadership
The Critic Books Podcast: Learwife
The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
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We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.