Artillery Row
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism