Government
When did psychology get so cringe?
Mates don’t let mates inform manipulative politics with bad behavioural science
Sunak drifts towards irrelevance
The PM seems to have no ambitions beyond not being Liz or Boris
Against national civic service
Citizens should not have to bail out the government
The ban that wasn’t
The “conversion therapy” ban is the product of misleading memes
“No thinking, please, we’re British!”
Our politics needs more strategic intelligence
Dismal plate of the nation
Lisa Hilton finds a disturbing metaphor in the unconvincing dining room of the House of Lords
How the Bank broke the Government
By letting a rickety asset class grow like topsy, the Bank of England created the crisis blamed on the mini-budget
The phantom menace
Reports from the space opera of British politics
Blue crush
Tories are back in love with Boris
Kwasi kwits
One ex-chancellor is a tragedy, four ex-chancellors is a statistic
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The Post Office scandal
Legislation to resolve the injustice is not as straightforward as it seems
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
