Man About Town
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
Sock it to ‘em
Omicron-cancelled events and surprised marionettes
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation