Natalism
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion