Brexit
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
The real cowspiracy
Politicians fiddle as a beef cartel leaves farmers in existential crisis
Block Boris!
There is a risk that if Boris Johnson receives the most votes he might actually win. This is unacceptable
Restoring the Constitution
Martin Howe QC explains why we need a Restoration of the Constitution Bill
The laughometer at the leaders’ debate
The issue being dodged by both Johnson and Corbyn was trust. Principally, the lack of it
Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
