Laura Thompson
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names