British Politics
A collapsing tent
The SNP is heading for disaster
Have we lost our minds?
Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era
Sleepwalking into federalism
The dangers of devolution
We deep dive at dawn
NEW: The Critic Sunday read — what biscuits were eaten at Chequers on Thursday
Clear them all out
Downing Street officials should be held to higher standards
On British chumocracy
Playing Six Degrees of Petronella Wyatt
What are historians for?
Contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
Feelings don’t care about your facts
Politics is about emotions at least as much as about reason
The devolution delusion
Britain is stuck with the recycling of failed ideas
The miseries of Maugham
What is the Good Law Project accomplishing?
ULEZ if you want to
Looking back at a week of villains, like Queen Victoria, and heroes, like Dehenna Davison
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
