Television
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
Actors do love gongs
Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
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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
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
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
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here