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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Nigel Farage is not establishment
Power in the UK is not determined by your schooling or your bank account
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
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
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead