Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
Ukraine special
Patrick Porter and Sam Ashworth-Hayes discuss the Ukraine invasion
Russia’s Empire in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
What historical parallels can be drawn with the current situation?
Is levelling up the answer to Britain’s problems?
Adrian Pabst, Alys Denby and Imogen Sinclair discuss Gove’s plan with Sebastian Milbank
The Critic Books Podcast: Devotion
A story of love in nineteenth century Prussia and Australia
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
The Great Game
Professor Jeremy Black on the 19th century cold war over Asia between Russian and Britain
The Critic Books Podcast: Burntcoat
Burntcoat was one of the first “pandemic novels” to be published in the wake of Covid-19
The Critic Books Podcast: Marianne Moore
In conversation with Heather Cass White: Moore’s editor
The Eastern Question and the origins of The Great Game
How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
