Dominic Cummings
Who actually got Brexit done?
Mark Francois’s Brexit book is a timely corrective to the Cummings narrative
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
Learn to Cook with Dominic Cummings
The former adviser shares life-saving tips on getting breakfast done
The modern age in lists
Plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off
In at the Domination
The controversial top-level adviser sets the record straight about his role in Creation
It was meant to be a screenshot of beauty
The Modern Dometheus
Today in making Matt Hancock look good
Meanwhile in the Caino Chief of Staff timeline …
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
The Dom Identity
What happens if an imaginary grenade doesn’t explode?
To govern is to blog
Abysmal media incompetence but something deeper is at work
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
Three act tragedy
The Wagatha Christie case reveals the addictive fun of gossip — but also its corrosive power
We need to talk about Sex Education
Relationship and Sex Education classes for children are being taken over by outside providers with their own agenda
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
The Critic Books Podcast: Portable Magic
Lucasta Miller discusses Emma Smith’s new book
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
Don’t mention the war
It’s wrong to cite the Ukraine conflict as the principal cause of soaring prices