Edmund Burke
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
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 end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous