The rights of the child?
A Scottish bill is importing radical progressive politics in the name of protecting children
How the Danes paid the Danegeld
We should resist the new blasphemy laws
Silenced squires
Packham’s victory in court saw a very big stick wielded against a very small publication
Public order and liberal doublethink
Disruption is enabled and peaceful activism banned
The EU is not flat
Hungarian interests deserve recognition
Why Orbán endures
Critics of the Hungarian government have to understand its popularity
Coffey and cigarettes
Smokers have suffered enough
Oh good lords
Think twice about Labour’s constitutional plans
Obstacle courts
Who benefited from prolonging the Battersbee case?
The EU’s appetite for power
What has Europe learned from Roe v Wade?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again