Elon Musk
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
False faiths
The digital worship of the autonomous self is a dangerous and self-defeating creed
Confessions of an engagement farmer
Does professional trolling really pay?
Controversial claims to genius
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
Americans are unhealthily obsessed with British decline
Britain is in a bad state but some of its would-be friends are not helping
In the grip of babies
The world’s most powerful men are disturbingly unstable
Playing politics
The Critic’s crack team of writers take you through the latest video games, inspired by real events
Trump and Musk are not helping right-wingers abroad
They do not understand that the MAGA template cannot be copied
“Efficiency” is masked racism
If someone isn’t behaving like a Nazi, They’re definitely a Nazi
Why politics kills comedy
It constrains humour or makes it complacent
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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
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground