Reform
Wrong people, wrong policy
Everyone has an excuse for squandering their chance to do Brexit
Twilight of the Tories
The fact that Danny Kruger can no longer find a home in the party is damning
Divorced, Defected, Danny!
Have a little faith
The power of fun
The forgotten language of political festivity
Against a British Bill of Rights
Parliament, not the courts, is the place where decisions should be made
Punch & Judy politics won’t work for the Tories
The Tories need to throw their legacy under the bus to survive
Kemi the Conservonaut fails to launch
We must yet wait with bated breath for her to (possibly) announce a policy Reform has already adopted
The case against judicial review
British proceduralism has hamstrung British ambition and innovation
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
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
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
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
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat