Prerogative
Power and the Crown
Royal Law: Prerogative Foundations by Robert Craig
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
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
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics