Right-Wing Politics
Where did it all Gove wrong?
Veteran Conservatives are still not taking responsibility for their mistakes
Is the “Boriswave” a useful concept?
Opponents of mass migration are obscuring the historical record
Mad, genius?
A new book attempts to untangle a right-wing mystery
Oligarchy is eating Orbanism
Inertia, youth disquiet, and stormy office politics could be the death of Fidesz in government
The man who poisons the well
The idea that Reform’s election result in 2024 was due to the genius of Nigel Farage is absurd
The British right will not be socially conservative
Like it or loathe it, Brits are liberal
Reform has a human capital problem
Why would talented and successful people be attracted to such a farce?
Dancing in the D’ARC
The right has to embrace the transformative potential of the Age of Trump
Among the MAGA avant-garde
How will the dissident right shape American culture in the age of Trump?
Politics is about winning
Ideas and values matter but they matter a lot less if you are not in power
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
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
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris