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Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
The red pill is a sedative
Men are finding bad solutions to real problems
Explaining law to Monbiot
Interim injunctions exist for a reason
A sticky wicket
Rishi Sunak has trouble playing, and delivering, spin
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Conservatism’s America problem
The British right is buying into a failed US culture war
The case for voter ID
The system is too vulnerable to abuse
The French disorder
France needs more realism about its social decay
Same as the old Conservatives
Partying like it’s 2019
The problem with problem gambling
Let’s try to keep things in perspective
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
