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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The revolution will be half-empty
Britain’s answer to America’s biggest conservative gathering offered empty seats, familiar grievances and a vision of the country that exists largely in the imagination.
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment