Queen Margrethe II
The abdication of responsibility
A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution they represent
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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 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
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
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
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
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent