Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
Beware of the K-Hype
The strange state of the States
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Most Read
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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all