Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
