Heidi Crowter
Heidi Crowter is disability rights advocate. She campaigns for Don't Screen Us Out, challenging the Abortion Act 1967 for discrimination against foetuses with disabilities.
Discrimination in the womb
Neither Heidi Crowter nor her husband feel Down’s Syndrome means their lives are not worth living
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares