Giorgia Meloni
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The maverick of Venice
Here we have a cultural ambassador for the multipolar age
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Italy and the f-word
What power does it have?
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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 decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
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
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands