Artillery Row
The legacy of Vanity Fair’s caricatures
Each cartoon had a story to tell about eminent figures in Victorian and Edwardian society
Inside university Marxist societies
One student’s escape from a campus cult
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
Letter from Washington: The perils of Flight 93 democracy
When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser
Frustrate their knavish tricks?
Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?
The politicisation of the police
British police officers are enforcing Stonewall’s wishlist
Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity?
Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay
Fair Cop?
How Stonewall turned the police into political activists
Counting the dead
How the UK failed at the logistics of death when it mattered most
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
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 rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
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
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel