Artillery Row
A positive thought
Theodore Dalrymple finds a reason to be cheerful
The designated survivor
Churchill’s stroke in 1953 does not create a workable precedent for Dominic Raab to follow
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
What does Labour’s new team mean for Brexit?
Sir Keir purges traces of Brexit sympathy from his front bench
Helpful advice for the police
Enforce actual laws, don’t bumptiously police the ones you’d like
Blessed are the geeks
The San Francisco Bay Area is short on solutions to old problems
No Brexit transition extension – bluff or brinkmanship?
This is a good time to bury bad news, so why the shortage of shovels?
Expediting the Coronavirus exit
The government has an ever-increasing need for a health solution: could Plasma Therapy be the way forward?
Part four: Home education? Help!
Maths counts too!
Why Lord Sumption is wrong about the coronavirus shutdown
Joshua Rozenberg says lockdown measures are a price worth paying
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
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
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 old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.