Satire
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
Sue Gray’s inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Keep your kids off social media
Childhood is too precious to be turned into content
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time