You're a middle-aged man who sports an embarrassing attempt at “designer stubble”. You enjoy telling everyone how much you enjoy the music...
7 months ago

Humanists UK vice-president Alice Roberts is conducting a brave campaign against the Church of England's dystopian programme of religious indoctrination.
10 months ago

During her coronation in 1953, the Queen made solemn oaths to maintain the “true profession of the Gospel”, “the Protestant Reformed Religion established by...
25 months ago

There's a new bogeyman in town. Criticised simultaneously as a reheated version of American pro-free market Tea Party style populism,...
16 months ago

The rise of anti-puritan disorder in 1660 reflected a growing sense that the superstructure of petty republican despotism was tottering.
28 months ago

Charles Windsor has gone through an extraordinarily rapid transformation. We all know that he became King of the United Kingdom of Great...
24 months ago

Every now and then, a pub or restaurant closes in my town and our community Facebook page is filled with mourning. “No!” “Don't go!
6 months ago

The track was built out of sections of concrete, because it was cheaper and faster to do so than use asphalt. That made Brooklands a wild ride.
12 months ago

Like all the best radical, insurgent voices, The Critic first saw its audience at a party in a Mayfair ballroom. For the second time in our...
6 months ago

Pagans tend to get a bad rap these days. It's not helped by stereotypical associations with messy animal sacrifice and people dancing around...
23 months ago