The Critic Show
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Is Reform inevitable?
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss Farage and friends, and the future of Britain
Debunking the AI hype
Andrew Orlowski explores the dark roots of AI
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback