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Add some petals to the pot
Beauty is not just to behold, but to devour
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer