How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
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
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
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.
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders