Parliament is preparing to meet next week to vote on EU trade deal
The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day
How detached will Northern Ireland be from Brexit Britain?
Despite agreement in the Joint Committee, the disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland remains considerable
What follows the abolition of fixed-term parliaments?
Will the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?
What would be different if Starmer was in charge?
Keir Starmer’s weakness is a lack of healthy scepticism for the wisdom of experts
Have Conservative MPs been taken to the limit of their endurance?
The Covid Recovery Group continues to gather momentum – and the prime minister knows it
Big news reaches a small town
Where was I when the Berlin Wall fell and Margaret Thatcher resigned?
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
Do MPs understand what Sunak admitted today?
If MPs felt the cut to foreign aid was today’s worst news then they were not listening
The Scottish Conservatives – what is the plan?
Douglas Ross is proving a better critic of Boris Johnson than of Nicola Sturgeon
Will Boris go for woke?
The Common Sense Group is seeking to stiffen the government’s resolve
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false