History
Caravaggio’s great extremes
Caravaggio’s art is a vivid rebuke to an artificial idealised reality
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
It’s not 1933
Nazi comparisons are misrepresenting the past and the present alike
Lessons from King Athelstan
We should do more to remember a titan of English history
Historic failure
If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
Truman’s choice
There were no good options for the U.S. in August 1945
History and the national interest
Those who do not learn from the past are liable to misunderstand Britain’s place in the world
Britain is stuck in a welfare loop
The incentive structure in a democratic welfare state makes economic realism impossible
Born on the 1st of July
The evolution of Canada reflects Britain’s enduring global legacy
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
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