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The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
Murdoch must buy the Jewish Chronicle
An open letter from Norman Lebrecht to Rupert Murdoch
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
