Conservative Party
Defund the tone police
The tutting and muttering of Tory wets should be ignored
Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
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
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here