Taxation
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
It’s OK to be angry about socialism
It is perverse that this chronic failure of an ideology endures
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Sorry is the hardest word
In the wake of the Cass Report, the hordes are now looking for a face-saving way to recant
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism