Political Biography
Lost in the eye of the hurricane
Crisis is the pinwheel of modern democratic politics
The blue blazer
Liz Truss’s story is a salutary tale
Can political biographies ever be any good?
Political memoirs can be essential, eye-popping reading if the subject is handled in the right way
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience