Tom Jones

Tom Jones is Deputy Online Editor of the Critic. He tweets at @93vintagejones

Kemi Badenoch might regret being left with Priti Patel rather than Suella Braverman

Labour’s answer to illegal migration borrows the aesthetics of successful enforcement without the substance that made it work

Badenoch claims to have seen off a mutiny, but will it actually win her relevance and respect?

Reform UK cannot depend too much on people who have already failed

A coherent national interest relies on a coherent nation. That can no longer be assumed.

Why 2026 will tell us if Reform really are ready for Government

The creaking health service is ever more reliant on sub-standard foreign doctors

Will the establishment allow Reform to succeed?

The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering