GOVERNMENT

The Dandelion Effect: Dispersing Asylum Seekers

May 24, 2026 0

The dandelion effect Dispersing asylum seekers without stopping the flow isn’t solving the problem NEIL O’BRIEN Keir Starmer’s government have been trying to claim credit for closing asylum hotels. You can see why – putting asylum seekers […]

DIGITAL ID

The Digital ID That Wasn’t Mandatory

May 24, 2026 0

How a compulsory BritCard quietly became “Useful, Inclusive, Trusted” – and why the rebrand deserves scepticism. THE RATIONALS . One of the quieter satisfactions of political observation is watching a grand ministerial vision quietly collide […]

COMMENTARY

The Tantrum Over Single-Sex Spaces

May 23, 2026 0

The tantrum over single-sex spaces The furious reaction to the EHRC’s guidance reveals a movement unable to accept legal and biological reality. ANDREW DOYLE Schadenfreude is the most ignoble of instincts. The English are so […]

COMMENTARY

The Best Thing for England is Still Britain

May 23, 2026 0

RICHARD LYON Clive Pinder’s essay in the Daily Sceptic last weekend on English independence is sharply argued and often very funny. Suppose he’s right. Suppose the United Kingdom really has become, as he characterised it, “an exhausted multinational […]

GOVERNMENT

Why People Smuggling Means Profits

May 23, 2026 0

Why people smuggling means profits People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK DAVID SHIPLEY Readers of The Critic will be painfully aware that the British economy is fake. As Chris Bayliss has […]

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