The Critic Essay
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience