Comedy
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
No honour among thieves
If Keir is trying to shame Boris by offering to resign, he’s going to be disappointed
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor
Aujourd hui, Boris ne regrette rien
Boris bitterly regrets that his actions have consequences
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
Tinker, Tailor, Rayner, Raab
From Lebedev to Corbyn — Tories and Labour trade blows on the company they have kept
Most Read
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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
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
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work