Gary Hall
Duel in the pool
An eighth gold in Sydney isn’t just an American hope: it’s their turf, their birthright
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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
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
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
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art