Satire
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile