Artillery Row
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation