Pakistan
Why Khan’t our media do its job?
Piers Morgan shouldn’t have been soft on the former Pakistan PM
The Critic Books Podcast: Edgware Road
A debut story of family mystery and intrigue — set between London, Oxford, and Karachi
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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
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways