Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
Sir Roger Scruton – The Last Commission
Sir Roger Scruton’s superhuman approach in the last months of his life
Reclaim the streets
Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!