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“Hermer’s institutionalism is actually not so far from Schmitt’s: a sovereign power must reign over groups to ensure their peaceful cooperation by sublimating their own interests to the sovereign’s.” My latest for The Critic. thecritic.co.uk/lord-hermers-f…

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A sexually voracious bisexual buffoon, Lord Boothby was rescued from infamy by powerful friends, writes Alexander Larman thecritic.co.uk/lord-boothby/

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Happy anniversary to the EEC referendum! Described by the Sun as “a battle between the sane, sensible, moderate majority and lunatic fringe extremists” thecritic.co.uk/the-eec-refere…

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The anti-EEC campaign was so outgunned they didn’t want the Government’s offer of a free mailshot because they couldn’t afford the envelopes — Tom Teodorczuk on its 50 year anniversary thecritic.co.uk/the-eec-refere…

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How could a project so contentious be within the Church Commissioners’ charitable purposes? Charles Wide investigates thecritic.co.uk/the-curious-ca…

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Rather than the merits of the research itself, writes University Challenged, it now matters more who is doing it thecritic.co.uk/funding-check-…

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"...one of the things Schmitt warned against somewhat presciently was the emergence of human rights discourse as a method for grounding political legitimacy....the side that claims to be acting on behalf of humanity presents their opposites as inhuman."

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The daring Ukrainian drone strike reminds us of past attacks while demonstrating how war will change in the future, writes Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine thecritic.co.uk/the-day-of-the…

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I was delighted to write about my bête noire Lord Boothby, the perverted peer himself, for the latest issue of The Critic. thecritic.co.uk/lord-boothby/

Charlie Cole (@charlie__cole) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In my debut article for The Critic, I argue that the Government must apply the changes to settlement (ILR) to those already here and save billions in the process. thecritic.co.uk/the-boriswave-…

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Douglas Murray always seem to frame the facts in a manner that is maximally sympathetic to Israel, writes Ben Sixsmith thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-20…

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“Hermer’s institutionalism is actually not so far from Schmitt’s” — Dr. Jake Scott investigates the attorney general’s adventures in political philosophy thecritic.co.uk/lord-hermers-f…

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If the Government is serious about reducing immigration into Britain, writes Charlie Cole, it must apply proposed changes to settlement retrospectively thecritic.co.uk/the-boriswave-…

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“A more depressing example of bureaucratic and regulatory overreach is hard to imagine” — Nicholas Boys Smith mourns the loss of the Oval book swap library thecritic.co.uk/ovals-books-go…

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A monocausal focus on the evils of unrestricted capitalism undermines a new book on the Great Famine, writes Yuan Yi Zhu thecritic.co.uk/potatoes-pigs-…

Nicholas Boys Smith (@boys_nicholas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is about a big subject pretending to be little, about profundity masquerading as triviality and about the British state beginning to break as it stops doing the hard things it should do and does too many easy things that it should not.

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I really enjoyed this takedown of the Attorney General's adolescent attacks on critics of the ECHR as Nazis. Dr. Jake Scott does a great job here digging into what Carl Schmitt believed and the context in which he developed his theories. thecritic.co.uk/lord-hermers-f…