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A cricket club founded by an expatriate lacemaker evolved into one of the wealthiest football sides in the world
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!