Artillery Row
The odd couple
Labour and Reform seem to be locked in an uneasy embrace
Britain is not an immigrant nation
This dumb ahistorical meme should be rejected
Nationalising childhood
The government wants to crackdown on home educators — has it tried talking to them instead?
The thick blue line
The problem with humourless police officers
Is the “Boriswave” a useful concept?
Opponents of mass migration are obscuring the historical record
Trump’s film tariffs would be a total flop
The President’s idea for rejuvenating Hollywood is an absolute clunker
Farage has the power to defund Net Zero
The £55 billion opportunity for Reform-controlled councils
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
Cerys Vaughan shows what real gender non-conformity is
There is nothing revolutionary in women abandoning women’s rights
Why should Muslims in Britain understand free speech?
We should stop assuming that our values are universal
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
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
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
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.
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre