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Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
On the passing of the great generation
In memoriam Simon Preston CBE, ob. 13.V.2022 & James Bowman CBE, ob. 27.III.2023
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
Labour owes women actual feminism
Starmer should oppose the two child benefit cap
Brexit will be good for the world
British aid spending can now be more efficient
The Tories deserve to be hated
If not for the reasons many of their critics hate them
Fun in the sun
The Critic’s summer drinks in our glamorous Tufton Street garden
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
Elite overproduction
We’ve elected far too many Conservative MPs from mickey mouse constituencies
Celestria Parfit
Culture could not survive without such austere archivists
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess