John Major
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
The Major problem
What is his legacy — if, indeed, he has one
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
Blob ONE, Number Ten NONE
Our overtaken by events December leader
There’s nothing so ex as an ex-PM
Rejected and reviled former prime ministers should stay in the political graveyard where they belong
A year of Black Wednesdays?
The CRG deputy chairman on the longterm Lockdown risks
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
The verdict of history
How will Brexit shape views on the political generation that lost?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
