Triple Lock
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified