An Admissions Don
The Critic has withheld the author’s identity because his views are incompatible with his career
I regret to inform you …
An Admissions Don at a major British university lays bare the quota-driven process of student selection and imagines what honest acceptance and rejection letters may look like
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
Was she more than pie in the sky?
We all laughed at the former PM but her radical message might have been right
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography