Black Death
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
A plague of words
Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?
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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
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
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
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning