The Critic Essay
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
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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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas