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
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Europe at the crossroads
The EU elections could see the populist right make significant gains
No more Mr Boring
Farage is making politics fun again
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering