Artillery Row
Fun in the sun
The Critic’s summer drinks in our glamorous Tufton Street garden
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
Elite overproduction
We’ve elected far too many Conservative MPs from mickey mouse constituencies
The West’s Ukraine policy is no longer ethical
Conscription is a moral evil we should not support
In praise of constitutional flexibility
It was right to amend the Supreme Court’s decision on Gerry Adams
DegreeStoppers
Call DegreeStoppers now – if your tip leads to a conviction, you could receive a postgraduate diploma
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
The grim side of graduation
Prospects for today’s students look bleak
The battle is not the war
Free speech defenders should not celebrate prematurely
Icy glamour
Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Superunintelligence
Have we witnessed the rise of ShappsGPT?
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
