Artillery Row
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
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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
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair