The Critic Essay
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
Duke of deception
Duke Wolff was a real life Gatsby, a brilliant, flamboyant faker whose lies left a legacy of both devastation and fascination for his children
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic