Artillery Row
A fence in Röszke
Hungary is on the frontlines of the migration crisis
Free speech lives in Finland
The Helsinki court’s affirmation of free speech today is a much-needed beacon of hope
A left-wing Limbaugh
James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes
Why employers should reconsider Trans Day of Remembrance
Is this a display of compassion or an opportunistic politicised event?
Sunak is turning his back on Brexit voters
Sacking Suella and bringing back Cameron sends the worst possible signal to the Red Wall
Imagine there’s no problem
It isn’t hard to do
Who governs Britain?
David Scullion joins the Critic to discuss working for Suella, the culture of Westminster, and fighting the blob
The American position in the Middle East courts peril
Keeping US troops in Iraq and Syria is too much of a gamble
Welcome to the age of anglo-pessimism
It’s not been the best week to be a small-c conservative
Nemesis comes to Charlottesville
As Americans gleefully melt down statues of Confederate leaders, they may soon discover that iconoclasm is no road to civic peace
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature