Politics
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Holy baloney
Marcus Walker prays for episcopal consistency
Tawdry roots of a deeply damaging doctrine
The Separation of Powers is one of the worst, and one of the most influential, ideas around
Small is best
In Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa small nations lead in terms of economic and social development
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
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
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think