A blunderbuss blast at “progressives”
Progress is too important to be left to the progressives
The convivial conservative
The cultivation of conviviality became the golden thread of Western civilisation
Young Winston: seizing the day
The life before his and our finest hour
The regime that set the stage for Nazism
The question is not about Weimar, but what went wrong with the Germany that preceded it
Gods and monsters
The chequered history of Europe’s monarchs and dictators
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
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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
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
The crushing cost of social care may one day make assisted suicide seem an admirable choice
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth