Artillery Row
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
