Home educators are being persecuted
Heavy-handed safetyism is threatening the rights of parents and children
Labour’s assault on home education
Home educated children are disproportionately scrutinised by the state already
The return of Victorian parenting
From the bus to the upmarket restaurant, we want our children to sit still and shut up
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
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