Godzilla
Enjoyable destruction
Godzilla Minus One may not be especially profound but it is great fun
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
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
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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 futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong