The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
The Critic Books Podcast: George III
Graham Stewart and Andrew Roberts discuss the life and reign of Britain’s most misunderstood monarch
Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?
Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
The Critic Books Podcast: The Gardener
On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
