Victory!/Defeat!
It was the best of deals, it was the worst of deals
Thinking inside the box
Leadbeater is a jolly speaker, chivvying us onwards
The odd couple
Labour and Reform seem to be locked in an uneasy embrace
…but it might work for us
The Prime Minister’s rhetoric has nothing to do with Reform, it says here
Starmer’s nightmare
The prime minister is being haunted by a smug Nigel Farage
VE’ll meet again
The government’s exciting plans for patriotic displays of Britishness
Our Great Leader Nigel
Never be the first to stop clapping
Run Robert, run!
Here comes the Starmer with his pun
Playing politics
The Critic’s crack team of writers take you through the latest video games, inspired by real events
Riefenstahl: artist or propagandist?
Riefenstahl is a standing refutation of the comforting myth that great art only comes from the good guys
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations