Editorial
The silence of the arts
Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?
The Whitehall rot sets in
This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered
Losing without a fight
No one will say the truth to the one side that is waging the culture war. The only dog in this battle will win it
A body fit only for the bin
The Electoral Commission has repeatedly wilted in the face of hysterical conspiracy theories
Unfinest Hour
Our character has been all too gruesomely on display in our response to the pandemic
The politics of the plague
Boris Johnson may already have waited fatally long
The real rogue state
Wherever the outrage is about the success of Sinn Fein, there hasn’t been a word from Brussels
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
Lost in transition
The proposition is that men can become women and women can become men. How and when are pertinent words
Most Read
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
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
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid