Peter Westmacott
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
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
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear