Ed Davey in rat-infested custard
Even torture wouldn’t stop Davey from voting for cleaner streets and better-run councils
Starmer chameleon
He comes and goes, he comes and goes
Sede vacante
The Critic has been canvassing our top sources for suggestions on the new Pope
A hell of a movie
Warfare rejects the usual tropes of its genre
Sci-fi satire Mickey 17 misses the mark
There is a good short film here, inside a long bad one
Steel yourselves
Summoned from our ploughs, and our lawnmowers, to seize the means of production
The coming apart of the deal
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be optimistic about Trump are convincing no one
Peston’s Inbox
Let’s do a “war leader Keir” photo op
Softball Wednesday
Labour MPs were not testing Keir Starmer, but nor was Kemi Badenoch
The Irish Tory taxi driver
The Conservatives have no idea where to go
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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
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest