Tax
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
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
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country