Learwife
The Critic Books Podcast: Learwife
The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love