Angels
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
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
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
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
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people