The nicotine closet
Where are the smoking politicians?
Let Thatcher rest
Toryism must face modern challenges with modern ideas
Grammar ain’t a class issue
Angela Rayner’s inverted snobbery helps no one
Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
The perils of a speaker unchained
Bercow remains a grim warning about what a politician can still do in the chair, if he puts his mind to it
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
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
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt