Alfred the Great
Lessons from King Alfred
The Edington Fellowship and the future of Britain
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country