New Labour, new danger?
25 years on from the 1997 election
The Caribbean after slavery
Professor Jeremy Black on the Caribbean in the 19th century
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How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
The rise and fall of slavery in the Caribbean
Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
What drove the colonisation of the Caribbean?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses Caribbean society pre-Columbus
The Critic Books Podcast: The Golden Rule
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In Sparta: how Brexit happened
ERG leaders, and Rob Hutton, reflect on how the Tories almost collapsed over MV3
The Critic Books Podcast: The Restless Republic
What happened in the decade Britain was without a monarch?
How modern wars end
History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end
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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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic