Salena Godden
The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
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 costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree