AUKUS
The trouble with AUKUS
Australia cannot always depend on its allies for sufficient support
Can countries ever really be friends?
Are we witnessing the usual ups and downs in the anglosphere relationship or do countries really only act in self interest?
Does AUKUS change Australia’s role in the Pacific?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the past and present of Australia’s role in the western alliance
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
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
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent