Is NATO to blame for the war in Ukraine?
Peter Hitchens and Adrian Pabst discuss NATO expansion and the tragic road to war in Eastern Europe
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
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
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
