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Farage: I’m not worried
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Most Read
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions