Black Labour Politician
Fifty years on: the battle to elect Britain’s first black MP
Dr David Pitt’s experience is now largely forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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
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
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai