Ian Blackford
Scots on the rocks
A bad day for the SNP
Boris banks on his support
Whispers about Russian gold breach Westminster’s united front
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers
Liar! Liar! House on fire?
Never mind whether PMQs matter – does Parliament currently matter?
Nicola Sturgeon knows where to look the Brexit gift-horse
Regulating Brexit Britain’s internal market provides the SNP with fresh causes for grievance
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
