Economics
Don’t cry for Harold Macmillan
Retro Toryism can’t save the Conservatives
Fiscal fibs
Beware Tories promising tax cuts
The Cosa Nostra in suits
Big business acts as a mafia, squeezing suppliers and raising prices for customers
Real social responsibility
Be wary of companies with public sector monkeys and a diversity officer on the board
The wise gnomes of Zurich
Why is Switzerland’s rate of inflation so much lower than that of Britain and the USA?
Housing hypocrisy
The mainstream parties are betraying the aspirations of young people
Reasons for Rishi to be cheerful
Soaring inflation means the Chancellor can avoid an unpopular tax hike
Don’t mention the war
It’s wrong to cite the Ukraine conflict as the principal cause of soaring prices
Banks, bikes and choppers
Banks should be like activist investors and intervene early rather than pull loans hastily
The joys of getting down with the grandkids
Campaigners for inter-generational justice miss the mark
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
