Artillery Row
Did Mary Whitehouse have a point?
The moral campaigner is having another moment in the spotlight
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
The war in Ukraine may have only just begun
Campaign Diary: Russia is playing a long game and tapping into its Soviet past
Making misogyny a hate crime misses the point
Women need better application of the law, not new legislation from posturing MPs
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
The war for wombs
The surrogacy industry has made women’s bodies into a battleground
No, Keir, sex does matter
Denying biological reality is worsening a public health crisis
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Parliament’s bitter pill
The commons has voted for at home abortion without considering the consequences
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless