Book Review
Beating the retreat
Wokeness represents an autoimmune disorder of liberalism itself
Should we make Classics history?
Enthusiasm may cause less harm, and prompt more good, than cynicism
Panic on the streets
A new book is a gripping account of terror and death in London
Marriage blues
Don’t worry, Rosie, the divorces will start soon
“I’m afraid the news is not good …”
Our confidence in doctor diagnosis is sadly misplaced
A blunderbuss blast at “progressives”
Progress is too important to be left to the progressives
How speech flowered from an ancient root
Connective tissue between Classical Western and Indian languages
A clean-up job for bullshit politics
A case against “TERFs” uses interesting research in the service of the absurd
A heap of broken images
A new book finds some clarity in our unstable world
Potatoes, pigs and peat
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
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
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous