Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman is a writer, editor and former foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of Standpoint magazine in London and The Indian Quarterly in Mumbai. The author of Aiding & Abetting (2013), he is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute for the Study of Civil Society (although views expressed for The Critic are his own)
The Italian model
Did Chinese migrant labour in the fashion industry bring Covid-19 to Europe?
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors