The Critic Magazine

The temperance lobby is making a comeback Source

In Essex, Reform unveiled a 100 day plan: how have they done?

Pedro Sánchez should have been evicted from office a long time ago — but who could replace him?

How to start a baby boom Source

The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Reinvention and the Birth of a New Britain Source

After a near-death year, the Conservatives are euphoric to find themselves still breathing Source

Kemi Badenoch might as well have been more ambitious in her conference speech Source

The world seen through the eyes of the BBC is strange and unsettling Source

Arguments about ethnicity, nationality and culture have been filled with ignorance and opportunism Source

Research demonstrates that mass migration is hurting British workers Source

Kemi Badenoch has had stronger performances but Conservative triumphalism is premature Source

Simon Garfield’s The Pen: A Human History Source

The capital is a lawless nightmare that should be placed under martial control immediately Source

The Conservatives paid tribute to the late Jeffrey Archer with some fabulous fiction Source

Was a bestselling, critically acclaimed French-language novel generated by AI?

The violence has dark implications for the political and demographic future of the country Source

Julius Caesar’s life was even more interesting than his death Source

Grim economic realities are hard to balance with his sentimental rhetoric Source

The Ownership Society: How Bourgeois Values Can Save Britain Source

Free speech is vital to the survival of a healthy society, but it should be used wisely Source

Andrew Griffith delivered one of the worst party conference speeches of all time Source

The Conservatives have a long way to go but at least their economic instincts appear to have improved Source

Every London borough wants a slice of £11.7bn for new subsidised homes, but does that money belong in the capital at all?

Britain’s marriage rate is collapsing, and the cure is for us to rediscover the spirit of Mrs Jennings Source

Universities should be helping students to think, not enforcing questionable concepts Source

Support for local government is a means of undermining its real enemy Source

Gerald Martin’s Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life Source

Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives have developed an extraordinary confidence in their own inevitable return to power Source

Sinister stories for the spookiest of months Source

However much times change, there is still a special magic to a steam train Source

Stirring words are all well and good but Andy Burnham still has to do the hard work of reforming the state Source

Why the Green Party is attempting to rewrite the English language Source

Reform have issued a plan for power — but how realistic is it?

Violin Concertant XXI, vol 2 (TyXart) Source

The Great Exhibition of 1851 is one of the best compound-interest stories in British history Source

We, like the near-vanquished red squirrel, have proved the most vulnerable of British breeds Source

The government must embrace a common sense approach towards sex and gender Source

Can Javier Milei be radical enough to free Argentina from its cycle of failure?

Voters cannot accept France becoming more expensive and more insecure indefinitely Source

A new Jane Austen adaptation proves how much more sentimental and moralistic we have become Source

René Vienet, the colourful French soixante-huitard who dared to think differently Source

The very premise has an emotional hold built into it Source

The Conservative Party still needs to account for the depths of its failure Source

This is not an attack on violence and coercion but on thinking differently Source

The attack on Manchester’s Jewish community, one year ago, should never have happened Source

The party has failed its core voters and left itself without direction Source

From housing and tariffs to settlement rights and demographic change, a look at what the figures reveal about the Afghan schemes Source

Why Middle Eastern art is all the rage Source

Review: What Should My Children Do?

The Greens have a real chance of taking Keir Starmer's old seat, if only they could bring themselves to fight like the people they're trying to beat Source