The verdict of history
How will Brexit shape views on the political generation that lost?
The future of One Nation Conservatism
The older generation has jumped ship – just as liberal Conservatism’s moment has come
The problem with the exit poll
Don’t go to bed early, says Graham Stewart
Painting the red rose county blue
If Lancashire Leavers can ever be persuaded to vote Conservative, it needs to be now
Bad television is good for democracy
This election has broken the aura and expectation accorded to TV debates
The ghost of busses past
The perception that Boris Johnson is an incontinent liar helps Labour to get away with its own misinformation
The Case for defence
The Conservatives can hardly claim to be the friend of the armed forces
Is Scottish Conservatism heading south?
Graham Stewart on why a lot of ‘Cons Holds’ are actually too close to call
Diminishing returns
Why voters are switching off from the TV debates
The Critic Interview: Andrew Roberts
Graham Stewart meets the historian and biographer who is as familiar with today’s leaders as with the great figures of the past
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
