Keir Starmer
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
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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
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?