Boris Johnson
Is anyone following the leader?
The Conservatives have a long way to go before winning back relevance
The Boriswave hasn’t even hit the shore
If new migration rules aren’t applied retrospectively, the Boriswave could yet cost £230 billion
Shortcummings
Reform should ignore Dominic Cummings’s ongoing efforts to give Tim Shipman copy
Boris Johnson, the Wrath of God
On the resurrection of the bloated Lazarus
Don’t kid yourselves, Team Kemi
The Tories’ flailing failure looks more like performance art than sound political strategy
Brexit: Endgame
The Earth’s Dreariest Heroes might have run out of sequels
Victory!/Defeat!
It was the best of deals, it was the worst of deals
Is the “Boriswave” a useful concept?
Opponents of mass migration are obscuring the historical record
There’s no evidence for menu calorie counts
Calorie counts on menus are thoughtless puritanism, masquerading as science
Sede vacante
The Critic has been canvassing our top sources for suggestions on the new Pope
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth