Lesley Manville
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
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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
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
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile