Edmund Fawcett
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
