Bridget Phillipson
Kids should eat breakfast at home
Breakfast clubs are bad for both families and the economy
Keeping schtum
Many politicians aren’t saying anything about the Supreme Court ruling
Here comes the gaslighting
The waters will close over the trans madness as if the past never happened
Labour’s assault on home education
Home educated children are disproportionately scrutinised by the state already
Birbalsingh vs the blob
Labour’s education policy is simply concessions to special interests
The state versus the family
Labour’s assault on home-educating is opportunistic and wrong
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed
The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
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
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you