Stephen Pollard

Here’s your starter for ten. When did this report appear on the BBC’s website? “The government is discussing plans for…

Tyson Fury Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport This article is taken from the May 2026 issue of The Critic.

When a politician changes their public stance on key issues as often as Andy Burnham , it's difficult to know for sure what he actually thinks about anything.

When a politician changes their public stance on key issues as often as Andy Burnham, it’s difficult to know for sure what he actually thinks about anything. The Makerfield by-election campaign has only been underway for just over a week and he has already performed at least four 180-degree U-turns.

Even though there is a clear anti-Labour - and thus anti-Burnham - majority in Makerfield, the presence of the Restore Britain candidate could split that vote and hand victory to Labour

Interviewed earlier this month at the Cannes film festival, Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes spoke of the ‘shameless orgy of anti-Semitism overtaking the West.’ The director of Son of Saul was stating something both profound and obvious, and here in...

Interviewed earlier this month at the Cannes film festival, Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes spoke of the ‘shameless orgy of anti-Semitism overtaking the West.'

I am aware that there is limited interest in my domestic arrangements, but there is a reason why I’m telling you that for much of my adult life I lived in central London. First in Bayswater, then in Fitzrovia. I loved the bustle, the grime, the noise...

The Soho Society - and its do gooding Nimbies – represents so much of that is wrong with modern Britain today

The murder of Henry Nowak has, rightly, led to a huge public debate. The police’s decision to arrest and handcuff Nowak as he lay dying because his murderer claimed to have been racially abused appears to be the latest, albeit the most grotesque, example of woke policing destroying the trust we once had in the constabulary.