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Rock benediction
Make-Up gig is a matter of performance
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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
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth