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A God-shaped hole
Our thought needs theology as much as our hearts need transcendence
A non-fictional feast!
The best of military history from 2025
Against literary safetyism
Writing, and reading, is about taking risks
How one Egyptian activist accidentally exposed the British establishment
Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a symptom of the problem more than he is the problem
We must protect freedom for its own sake
Defend the countryside not merely out of tradition, but for liberty
War with Russia is not inevitable
Our leaders should speak less loudly and build a bigger stick
We need zero tolerance for Islamism
Political Islam is ruining any prospects for integration
Our forever failing NHS
The creaking health service is ever more reliant on sub-standard foreign doctors
The art of fine dining
Mount Street’s food would be better without the art on the side
The Palace of Westminster is falling down
Nicholas Boys Smith joins The Critic Show to discuss architecture
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
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
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself