nostalgia
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
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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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
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 errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Should I buy Breaky Bottom?
England’ greatest vineyard is up for sale for the first time. Henry Jeffreys looks into whether it will make a good business proposition.
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get