The Critic Essay
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
Fear and tension in Frankfurt
Mass immigration has exacerbated societal dysfunction in Germany
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
The follies of human quantitative easing
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human