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?
The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
Julie Bindel in conversation with Raquel Rosario Sanchez
Did the University of Bristol enable Rosario Sanchez’s bullying and harassment?
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?