The Difficult Ghost
Losing Truman
This ghost trail is filled with false starts and made-up assertions, but it ultimately leads us nowhere
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
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
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived