Dissidents
How one Egyptian activist accidentally exposed the British establishment
Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a symptom of the problem more than he is the problem
Oikophobia in excelsis
Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s case has exposed the hollow priorities of our political and cultural elites
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
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
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate