Postmodernism
The brave new world of Swedish education
What is “post-truth” schooling?
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
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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
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken