Shamima Begum
Power with responsibility
Britain has built a governing system in which officials exercise immense power yet face no consequences. Could that be about to change?
Keep Shamima Begum out
She has done terrible things and she has been treated justly
We need to forgive Shamima Begum
An ISIS bride calls Christianity’s bluff
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless