1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (341+ words) Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth and the Moriori This resulted in the numerically superior Moriori being massacred by the Maori invaders, and the survivors enslaved, in what is now known as the…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1056+ words) In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here This article is taken from the March 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just "25. "It…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (218+ words) Try five issues of Britain's most civilised magazine for "25 A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness L'szl" F'ld'nyi's essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer It has become too bloated and…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (331+ words) Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity Should you be able to call the members of an opposition political party stupid? This should be a very easy question to resolve unless you are some sort of fascist. However,…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (933+ words) Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet's weather This article is taken from the April 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just "5. How can an entrenched orthodoxy…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (254+ words) Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment If our classics departments are to survive, they need to foster enthusiasm for their discipline Try five issues of Britain's most civilised magazine for "25 A short predictable play…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (378+ words) The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power These proposals differ in both rationale and scope, so it should give us pause that lay judgment in both cases is what the state has been most eager to dispense with. This…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (381+ words) The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at. This is silly stuff of course but then so is the argument that the heritage status of the Southbank Centre…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (427+ words) Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems This presents capitalism with an existential paradox. AI promises to deliver what capitalism has always pursued: maximum efficiency, lower costs, higher productivity. But it does so by removing…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (245+ words) Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life The best WLN, like Flesh and Any Human Heart, also feel truer to us than other stories Hesse tells us that life is not a riddle to be solved…...