German History
The Nazi hunter
Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer peeled away the official narrative to reveal the Holocaust to his countrymen
Man or superman?
Loud’s biography of Emperor Frederick I is neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
The country that went to the wall
From its birth after 1945, to its death after 1990
Shadow of the Kaiserreich
The rootlessness of German political culture
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
The SPD
Many of Germany’s present woes were anticipated by Schröder’s time in office
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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
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.