UK Politics
Henpecked Harry & Badgered Boris?
The Prince and the Prime Minister have more in common than we might think
How the government’s maternity bill seeks to deny the reality of sex
The avoidance of the word “woman” in relation to pregnancy is part of a wider assault on women’s rights from transgender activists
Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’
Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?
What kind of government rules by fear?
The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself
Escape to Vaccinery
Where’s the reckless rogue Tory MPs elected leader? Who’s this square?
Six ways to end Britain’s culture wars
Nigel Jones proposes a list of six steps that the government could easily enact to conserve our liberty
Why the Government should ban Scottish banknotes
Scottish banknotes foster the illusion that Scexit would be easy – that couldn’t be further from the truth
From the ashes, nothing
The façade of Robert Jenrick
What is truth?
It depends upon what the meaning of booking a hotel room is
You’ll never guess how this ends
You’re in the getting-Brexit-done business
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
