On the strangeness and variety of urban development
Must a city have a cathedral? Must a place with a cathedral be a city? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the often contested evolution and definition of English towns and their historical significance.
British air power in theory and practice
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
A request — and an opportunity!
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
