Artillery Row
Stage fright
The National Theatre’s new season is concerning for theatre fans
Beyond the one-man band
With defections looming and insiders hedging their bets, Reform faces an awkward question: who actually fills its benches?
Is Syria descending into extremism?
Dark forces have been unleashed by Western gullibility
The myths of Tory moderates
The idea of a “One Nation” voter bloc is pure fantasy
We can’t afford not to reform public sector pensions
Reform would eliminate one of Britain’s largest long-term liabilities
How Trump is damaging right-wing politics
He rallies foreign liberals and left-wingers around their leaders
You’re banned
Kemi Badenoch’s plan to save the Tories by firing the voters
The end of UK drill
A genre based on sensational violence is simply fizzling out
The “British FBI” delusion cycle
Politicians neglect the long-term work that must be done to truly reform policing
The Spanish government is making a gigantic immigration gamble
As right-wingers gain ground, Pedro Sánchez has announced a massive amnesty for immigrants
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand