European Politics
Hey, Foreign Office, leave Slovakia alone
The UK’s activist foreign policy has been unmasked in Slovakia
The taming of Emmanuel Macron
The French president was once a bold reformer. What went wrong?
Is there a secret plot against AfD politicians?
Conspiracy theories flourish in a culture of anti-democratic censorship and authoritarianism
The German gravy train
Politicians in Germany are demanding more from the electorate while expecting more for themselves
Socialist Spain is drowning in sleaze
Spaniards are finally recognising the moral rot amongst their left-wing rulers
What is the European Commission smoking?
Hiking taxes on cigarette substitutes is public health madness
The centrists are the real extremists
European democracy is being thwarted by the Extreme Centre
Could Germany have an anti-woke Left?
As the Bundesrepublik’s political centre crumbles, the BSW eyes a gap in the market
Romania has exposed anti-democratic tendencies in Europe
We have to choose the politicians that European elites have already chosen
No thanks, America
Americans should stop insulting Europe — but Europe should stop allowing itself to be insulted
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
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The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think