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Strange brew
The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Hate is not a crime
Officers’ good intentions have been weaponised by unscrupulous whingers to muzzle their ideological opponents
That got real old real fast
At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida
Nationalists in neutrality’s clothing
If UK ministers are not at liberty to defend the Union, then Northern Ireland is not genuinely British
Remotely wishing you a Merry Christmas
Woefully out of touch and with falling congregations, the Church of England faces a crisis of leadership and theology
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
Under his eye
The new women’s safety app is the logical endpoint of feminism’s culture of fear
Nudging the news
Has the partnership between Sky and the Behavioural Insights Team breached Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code?
Life is a leadership election
Eternal recurrence on a three-line whip
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books