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Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
No prefix required: how gay writers came of age
Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream
A little respect
Hancock’s concessions represent a major victory for Graham Brady
Trump v Biden: what did we learn from the first presidential debate?
The Critic’s US editor spoke to the publisher and editor of American Greatness, Chris Buskirk
And the horse you rode in on
The first US presidential TV debate, Cleveland, Ohio
Trump is waging asymmetric warfare – and it’s working
Biden came in for some rough treatment in the first presidential debate
Trump is losing. Last night’s ugly debate won’t change that
The president’s theatrics won’t persuade the voters he needs
Titled and entitled: Meghan and Harry humiliate themselves yet again
The Sussexes are yet to grasp that no one cares for their view on the upcoming US presidential election
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
Most Read
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
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read