Labour Party
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
It’s OK to be angry about socialism
It is perverse that this chronic failure of an ideology endures
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
