British Politics
Against conservative clichés
What conservatives talk about when they talk about conservatism
The next Right
Making National Conservatism British
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
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Finding faith
Peterson spends great time and care examining a cornucopia of Biblical stories
The government must stand up to India on immigration
An exemption from National Insurance contributions would be intolerable
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The anti-growth cabal
The standard EU charger will plug up growth and tie innovation in knots
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
