Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Sarah Pochin is more right than her critics
There is nothing wrong with criticising asymmetrical multiculturalism
The liberal centre has run out of ideas on immigration
The case for the status quo on mass migration has been comprehensively refuted
The process of yookay-ification
Our author takes a personal tour around an emerging country
Adolescence is an absolute clunker
It does not explore its overbearing themes realistically
The myths of upper normie civic nationalism
Folk beliefs of the upper normie #1
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The strange death of Cockney London
London’s white working class all but vanished, with little reporting or remark by press or politicians
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
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
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem