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ArticlePicking at old wounds
ADMIRERS OF THE STATECRAFT of Sir Keir Starmer may from time to time find reading the political content in The Critic a challenging and perhaps puzzling undertaking. But persistence has its rewards. For it should be acknowledged that he...
ArticleTHIs month’s cover is illustrated by Bob Venables
ArticleSex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy Neil Hannon could be a character from one of his own songs as he walks into the Royal Festival Hall, looking elegantly dishevelled in a grey tweed jacket, pulling a suitcase...
ArticleThe man who defied the ministry
Richard Bratby on Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture When the writer L.T.C. Rolt discovered the Talyllyn Railway on a rain-lashed day in the summer of...
ArticleA police school for scandal
Stuart Waiton asks if it’s any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness The handcuffing of the dying Henry Nowak has put Britain’s “two-tier policing” in the spotlight. But...