Alliance 4 Unity
Gaming Holyrood
Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?
Friendly fire
Can Unionists better game Scotland’s two vote electoral system than the Nats?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
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
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Latin love, Hispanic hate
Spain and Argentina’s complex relationship is being strained by the World Cup
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships