Rishi Sunak
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
Putting our arms around the National Elf Service
First have Christmas, then pay for it
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
The Conservative party’s autumn of discontent
It is a bad sign when Tory MPs say they will vote for their government with “a heavy heart”
The Nine Billion Names of Boris
Calm, Zen, Relaxed, Unfussed, Unagitated, Boris, Flip, Cripes, Oo-er
Did Boris deliver?
The Prime Minister would prefer to overpromise than exceed expectations
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness