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You had to be there
Riotous good fun for someone in No 10
A city of SpAds
Giving up on London is not a capital idea
The future of the Conservative Party
John Bowers reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
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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
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
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
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions