In Wednesday’s budget, amidst the jeers, playground antics and dull buzz of numbers, there was one recognisable message and ...

There is only one person in Britain who has shown herself to be incomparably the best leader available on the right. That ...

Governments routinely try to claim the credit for positive developments that happen during their time in office, while ...

Despite what people say, The Economist is still worth reading. This is true for two reasons — firstly whilst the depth of its ...

Project Spire is legally, historically and morally dubious, says a Winchester clergyman bringing a legal challenge against it ...

The BBC is “actively considering” criticism of the comedian Vittorio Angelone over a rape joke he made at a roast last year. “Questions have been raised”, Chortle reports, over the status of a ...

Six years on from her “infamous” essay on sex and gender, JK Rowling has written an update. Just like the first, it is ...

The contrast with previous generations of refugees to Britain suggests something has gone badly wrong with the admission ...

Some claim Labour is revitalised, backed by the progressive vote, and that it is time to go to the polls. But that’s not the ...

The Mediterranean is at the centre of a new maritime struggle This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic.

I’m so old I remember when people made YouTube videos. Then they realised that instead of creating scripted works of comedy ...