A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism

Doubling down will end the Tories as a party of government

The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats

Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back

We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law

Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics

More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too

Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong

The agony of global Christianity goes unheard in the West

Israel has a duty to be better than its enemies