John Michaels
Immigration highs and highs
To protect institutions and infrastructure, we need an annual limit on immigration
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
