2020 US Election
Is it too late for Trump?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss last night’s debate with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
The degrading cynicism of Joe Biden
While Trump was firm but measured, Biden’s response was to consistently stoke fear of death
Letter from Washington: Race and the 2020 race
The facts don’t fit the story Democrats want to tell themselves
Batting for Biden: the BBC and the US election
The BBC has been wholly partisan in its coverage of Donald Trump ever since he was elected
American puritanism lives on
Judge not a sext lest your sexts be judged
Harris vs Pence: What did we learn from the vice presidential debate?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
Biden and Harris need an answer on court packing
The vice presidential debate revealed a weakness in the Biden campaign
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
Trump v Biden: what did we learn from the first presidential debate?
The Critic’s US editor spoke to the publisher and editor of American Greatness, Chris Buskirk
And the horse you rode in on
The first US presidential TV debate, Cleveland, Ohio
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
