Rishi Sunak
Budget 2021: What we’re expecting
Tax rises and handouts, everything we (think) we know is coming
The kid stays in the picture
Alright Mr. DeMillions, I’m ready for my close-up
A red wall budget?
The Northern Research Group’s demands to the Chancellor
Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
A bright star in the east
Liz Truss doesn’t lack courage
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers
Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?
In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Bidding for bribes
Inviting local areas to bid for central government money is a terrible idea
Do MPs understand what Sunak admitted today?
If MPs felt the cut to foreign aid was today’s worst news then they were not listening
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 5th symphony/Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Hyperion)
Symphonies to give you hope and vision
Carrie’s war
Love me, love my curtains
Starting pistol
Brexiteer anger is beginning to spill over into actions
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
The talented (if very odd) Patricia Highsmith
On the 100th anniversary of her birth, Highsmith remains one of the great uncompromising writers of the last century
Is it Britain’s turn to invoke Article 16 this week?
Who has the better poker face for this week’s EU-UK Joint Committee meeting – Gove or Šefčovič?
Giya Kancheli: Poetry of Silence (Gramola)
Kancheli’s miniatures grip you by the throat and won’t let you do anything else until it’s over
What can blood and stool tell us about the spread of Covid-19?
New scientific studies have captured a different, broader picture – not a selection of details in high-resolution that grab headlines
J’accuse: the legal system in the dock
As a pupil, Alexandra Wilson frequently encountered racially loaded assumptions. In court, clients assumed she was a defendant
Doggy style
Bestialists, radical agriculturalists and fashionable intellectuals will enjoy this book, especially the pictures