Artillery Row
We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more
Time to admit it: the rules were always silly, and often cruel
He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
The EHRC delivers
Women’s rights campaigners have been vindicated… for now
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
Gays against the conversion therapy ban
Gay men oppose these proposals not in spite of being gay, but because they are gay
On trial for a Bible tweet
Finnish MP’s case could set a precedent for “unacceptable” beliefs across Europe
The pimps next door
The feminist fix: End sex trade by squeezing the local demand
The Ensueing
Sue Gray’s report certainly can’t make anything worse
Hard Labour for Boris
Have cake, get others to eat cake, still have to pay for cake
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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
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian