Jane Kelly
Jane Kelly became a trainee journalist on the Walsall Observer but after winning the Cosmopolitan Young Journalist competition in 1981 moved to London to live in squats, starve and take terrible jobs. In 1983 she found gainful employment after coming runner-up in the Catherine Pakenham Award for women journalists, organised by the Daily Telegraph. After a stint on the Sunday Telegraph she moved to the Mail on Sunday for a staff job. They sent her around the world business class for two years, before she moved to the Daily Mail for the rest of her full- time career in London. In 2008 she wrote a memoir about working as a teacher in Wormwood Scrubs prison. Since then she has been a freelance writer, now living in Oxford. She lives in hope of one day getting a radio play performed by the BBC.
How the lockdown restored my mental health
The message from a nagging government is unexpectedly liberating
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
Did QE cost taxpayers?
Claims that the Bank of England’s programme cost billions are a red herring
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
It’s our party and we’ll cry if we want to
Women face grim choices in the forthcoming election
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
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education