Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Sir Roger Scruton – The Last Commission
Sir Roger Scruton’s superhuman approach in the last months of his life
Why populism is popular
Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
The Critic Interview: Andrew Roberts
Graham Stewart meets the historian and biographer who is as familiar with today’s leaders as with the great figures of the past
My FGM Hero
On the issue of sexual and other forms of violence against women, Keir Starmer has a sterling record
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough