The Critic Magazine

On the disorientating power of poetic strangeness Source

Mathematicians are putting two and two together and seeing that AI is making them redundant Source

France’s riots are a warning, but the case against mass migration must keep being made Source

Internal documents show the Home Office has quietly dropped the date for announcing its promised changes to indefinite leave to remain Source

The British establishment has to understand why the public is cynical about appeals to patriotic duty Source

Bad incentives are undermining higher education in Germany Source

We are wasting talent and making children miserable for the sake of political delusions Source

Lindsay Hoyle might be even less amused by our politicians than the rest of us Source

The government simply cannot align its contradictory ambitions Source

A spineless government can neither satisfy the law-abiding nor deter criminals Source

ITV’s undercover work continues to rattle Reform Source

Under Labour’s new refugee sponsorship scheme, undefined “communities” will be able to nominate who comes to Britain.

The needs of patients must be put ahead of the niche enthusiasms of staff Source

New Acres is a pleasant place to work, exercise and resist a sneaking sense of existential dread Source

Russian attacks are terrorising Ukrainians and some in the West still blame the victim Source

Universal basic income would not free us but enslave us Source

We need a new wave of technical universities to support young people and struggling towns Source

We should not forget the risks that strong men still take for our food Source

Ministers want business to hire young people, yet keep making them too expensive to hire Source

How the riots in France have been playing out in realtime on social media Source

New legislation to increase the candour of public officials could actually reduce it Source

The achievements of our most mysterious poet have yet to be matched Source

Just how serious is Andy Burnham on youth unemployment?

What unites and separates different forms of political violence in Britain?

Canadian policies on assisted suicide are incoherent and unsafe.

The profiler has become the profiled Source

This autumn marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attack, the day that changed the world Source

Women and the Piano (Hyperion); Alexandre Tharaud: Mémoire (Erato) Source

Kemi Badenoch’s new paper on her political philosophy says it was inspired by Thatcher — but does the time of William Pitt the Younger shed more light on its ideas?

Material hardship is a real problem but so are the cultural roots of child exploitation Source

Does the UK have free speech for me but not for thee?

A new book explores the roots of the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree and of a very British kind of alienation Source

Inconceivable that anyone could stick that on a plate and expect someone to pay for it, much less eat it Source

How much is a Premiere League manager worth?

Seven London councils now refuse to help immigration enforcement, and Westminster must act Source

The struggle to define American civic mythology is a war without an end Source

The very real promise of economic growth must be made to seem tangible Source

Celebrities have brought surrogacy into the public eye but it is victims who will shift public opinion Source

Political discontent and political cynicism make Serbia’s future hard to predict Source

We live in the age of artistic boycotts that prove that art matters little to non-artists Source

and XXXL tent-like togs are out Source

Our economic conditions make the dream of high taxes and big investments impossible Source

The Irish author has exposed the British state’s counter-productive approach to Palestine Action Source

The Parades Commission was established to end the rule of the mob but Drumcree has revived it Source

Gordon Brown is right that we need more innovation but wrong about where it comes from Source

A counter-terrorism programme is being used as a means of threatening free speech Source

Gustatory, ethical and capricious Source

Andy Burnham’s role in the city’s revival Source

Nearly 10,000 working-age people in some of the world’s priciest postcodes pay no council tax Source

Kemi Badenoch has welcomed proportional voting in Wales, but the same logic wherever first-past-the-post is killing off the Tory party Source