Phil Craig
Phil Craig is a writer and TV producer. He is currently writing the conclusion to his bestselling Finest Hour trilogy with a book on Britain and Empire in 1945. Listen to his new podcast The Scandal Mongers
When journalists self-censor
The media should report the news whomever it inconveniences
The King’s touch
What Diana and French philosophy can teach us about the need for monarchy
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
It’s time to burst the red balloons
How did Europe’s wealthiest state come to finance the greatest tyrant of the 21st Century?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
