How faith built the best of our nation
Every aspect of English national life owes something to Christianity
Burning effigies for the Man
The Wicker Man is an ironic masterpiece that exposes the paradox of paganism
Is nature non-binary?
Enby birds and promiscuous plants are all part of a long history of dragging humans down to the level of beasts
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
The demons of WitchTok
Are Gen-Zs summoning evil spirits online?
The death of Ideals
TikTok, goblin mode, and the end of Platonism
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
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
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre