Edmund Fawcett
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts