Polymath
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
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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
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world