Chris Newton
Dr Chris Newton is a military historian and a former defence policy adviser to the Conservative Party. Follow him at @drchrisnewton
The 1980s are calling
Liberal complacency has left us unprepared to face the crisis in Ukraine
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)