Britain's Grooming Gang Crisis
Yet if the phenomenon is to be understood it is important to evaluate the data objectively. Otherwise we have a lot of heat and little light.
Ben Sixsmith
Ben Sixsmith is Contributing Editor at The Critic. His most recent book is “Noughties: Eleven Echoes of a Dismal Decade.”
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Memory and the Spanish Flu
The origins of the virus are disputed. Researchers have pointed to China, Austria and France.
Non-Believers Are Turning to the Bible
There are nonbelievers, though, who turn to the Bible for advice and inspiration and are “cultural Christians” in a deeper sense.
Haruki Murakami — Poet of Loneliness
It is in such trancelike states that Murakami’s characters are drawn into the lands of the surreal and the absurd.
Can Comedians Be Irritating?
Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
Defending Western History From Political Propaganda
The Argument for Open Borders Is Liberal Hubris
Progressives should remember that civilisation is not a science laboratory.
In Defence of Anonymity
The EU's Cosmopolitanism Gap
A Hundred Years of Communism
The Troubles and The Terror
How French Intellectuals Lost Their Faith