Keir Starmer
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
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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
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
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
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion