Artillery Row
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
