Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
“Safe and legal routes” is a dangerous cliché
Parties should be challenged to be clear on what they mean
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
