Mary Wollstonecraft
Feminism’s search for the perfect woman
On two biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft
Feminism has always been gender critical
Historical feminists knew better than anyone that biological sex is real
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
“A metal barbie on the crest of an £143,000 turd”
Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”
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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
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform