“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
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
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war