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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire