2020 US Election
Titled and entitled: Meghan and Harry humiliate themselves yet again
The Sussexes are yet to grasp that no one cares for their view on the upcoming US presidential election
What’s new for the presidential debates?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss the upcoming presidential debates
Letter from Washington: Partisan priorities
Americans are talking past one another
The making of Donald Trump
In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent
Covid and stogies on the campaign trail
A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race
A Ruthless Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg’s legacy will now be weaponised by the woke for November’s elections
Letter from Washington: The perils of Flight 93 democracy
When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser
For God, country and Trump
Why do conservative evangelicals continue to support Trump?
The normalisation of Trump
Due to the Democrats’ efforts to foster division, Trump still has a fighting chance
Letter from Washington: Trump is at the mercy of events
2020 has been a humbling year. Convention season was no different
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
