An endangered species
The Conservatives are losing their grip on power
I am the lord thy Brexit
Thou shalt have no other Brexits before me
Back in Vogue?
Nova is dreaming of fame and Rishi is trying to get out of the doghouse
We deep dive at dawn
NEW: The Critic Sunday read — what biscuits were eaten at Chequers on Thursday
The incredible shrinking PM
A low blow from Starmer
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
You can’t buy an excuse
James Cleverly might have wished he had stayed in the shops
Rishi does the maths
Sunak squirms under a grilling from Starmer on the NHS
Too sleepy to secede?
The Tory answer to the SNP is the nationalism of the land of Nod
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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
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work