Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The costs of war
Providing military assistance to Ukraine may be the right thing to do, but it’s not cheap
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
