Measure for measure
Give the imperial system its due weight and worth
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
The unification of Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the path of German unification, from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the creation of Bismarck’s Reich
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
Survivors, not suspects
Can a new report finally get rape victims out of the dock?
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
Bad Law Project?
The good, the bad, and the ugly of crowdfunding legal cases
Three act tragedy
The Wagatha Christie case reveals the addictive fun of gossip — but also its corrosive power
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer