Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Mind your business Britain
A struggling government turns to prohibition and regulation; a restless public may yet rediscover its taste for freedom.
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!