Travel
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
Kill or be killed: the charming cut-throats of the wild frontier
Visiting the site of a long-forgotten siege in the Hindu Kush
A union of roads
How driving has brought us together
Against Anglophobia
The English should stop sucking up to people who dislike them
Like a rolling stone
The sadder side of digital nomadism
Witless in Oaxaca
Good food, but terrible tinny wine and robotic service at a modish Mexican destination
Venice’s ugly sister
Almost everything in Mestre is recent; everything is decayed
Land of ghosts and legends
In search of Crusaders in chainmail and a city of the dead in the Caucasus Mountains
Cash only in Berlin
The city is struggling to remain itself
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
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
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
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
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules