Election
Keir Starmer is not the voice of reason
His position in the gender wars is disingenuous
The Tories should aim to lose in 2024
Retreat to victory!
The contradictions of Keir
Why is the Labour leader’s record such a muddle
Get ready for opposition
The bright side of a Tory loss
An attack puppy
Are the Tories losing their bite?
We deep dive at dawn
NEW: The Critic Sunday read — what biscuits were eaten at Chequers on Thursday
Why do the Tories love to promote their enemies?
They have failed to find and empower their own supporters
Why would anyone vote Tory?
The Conservatives have nothing to boast about
Girlhood is not a fetish
The Democrats cannot grow up
The road to somewheres
Can the Tories win back alienated voters?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform