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The Critic, 1 Aug 2026

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ArticleBack to the future

● “I know people at home are fed up with polit­ics,” admit­ted Andy Burnham from the steps of 10 Down­ing Street moments before enter­ing the build­ing for the first time as prime min­is­ter. He may never say any­thing com­mand­ing such wide assent...

Back to the future

ArticleWel­come one and all

Michael Collins says Wells, Eng­land’s smal­lest city, wel­comes all refugees — but for how long? SHE PROVIDED A SUMMARY OF HER POLITICAL opin­ions as though recit­ing a script she’d repeated many times, reveal­ing one per­sonal detail that...

Wel­come one and all

ArticleMy peaky blinder

David But­ter­field recounts the epic tale of how he conquered all of Alfred Wain­wright’s Lake­land peaks WATER DOESN’T ALWAYS FLOW DOWNHILL. Some­times it rushes upwards, ice cold, over and under and through you in its cease­less sur­ging ascent....

My peaky blinder

ArticlePROFILE: The her­oes of 1966

Boris Starling pays trib­ute to the undi­min­ished achieve­ment of Eng­land’s only World Cup win­ners ANATION HELD IN SUSPENSION. It’s the pen­ul­tim­ate day of July 1966, and more than 32 mil­lion people in Bri­tain are watch­ing the World Cup Final...

PROFILE: The her­oes of 1966