Love, work and whimsy
MacDonald Gill’s poster for the Empire Marketing Board helped promote a nation at the height of its powers
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar
Full of events and individuals worthy of toasting for every day of the year
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
Transing Joan
She, Joan. You, hack
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
Present-day lessons from past masters
Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger
The Tories need to find their soul
Rakib’s Britain: Business-as-usual politics are not going to cut it after Boris
How Hitler won
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the Nazis won in 1933 with only a third of the vote
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
Canada’s voyage down the slippery slope
Euthanasia is spiralling out of control
Guardians of our culture
Conservative America still vibrantly upholds the cause of Western civilisation
Not so perfidious Albion
Britain has proved a steadfast ally to Ukraine, whilst the EU has dragged its feet