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The Critic Books Podcast: Roaring Girls
The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines
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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
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The tears of Keir’s
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What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect