Archives
Tolerance? Intolerable!
National debate used to be encouraged by the Anglican state — but those days are fast disappearing
Are empires always evil?
Daniel Johnson says Spanish imperialism left a legacy defying simplistic analysis
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
If Brady is blocked – what next?
Conservative backbenchers are considering their options
What’s new for the presidential debates?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss the upcoming presidential debates
Number 10 is not a number, it’s a prison
The Code of the Wafflers
Why Sherlock Holmes remains the greatest detective
There is no need to make Sherlock Holmes more likeable, part of his brilliance is in his ambiguity
The sexist pseudoscience of ‘gender identity’
New Department for Education guidance helps to quell the fallacy of ‘transgender children’
Can we help Belarus?
We may not know how best to help Belarus, but it would likely not hurt to look as if we might make an effort
Cabinet Wars – Episode 2
Comparing the Cabinet on Twitter might suggest who is on manoeuvres – and who’s dropped the social media ball
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
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change