Project Spire
The Church of England must change course
Project Spire is ideological virtue signalling based on ignorance
The curious case of Project Spire
How could a project so contentious be within the Church Commissioners’ charitable purposes?
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics