Prime Minister
Glory Dave
The former prime minister takes us on a walk down memory lane
Total lack of recall
Taking a walk down memory wilderness with Rishi Sunak
The myth of Sunakos
What if you got everything you wanted and did not deserve?
Premature celebrations
Rishi can’t stop magnifying his triumphs and minimising his failures
Leaving the man cave
What drew David Cameron back to politics?
California dreaming
Is there strife in the Sunak household?
Rishiversary
How could anyone not like him?
Liz Truss: what if…?
An insider’s guide to a premiership cut short
The making of Sunak
The P.M. has the brittle self-confidence of a true Wykehamist
How Liz was (tin)foiled
Everybody was to blame but her
Most Read
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
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
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?