The Indian Mutiny
Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
The Critic Books Podcast: Learwife
The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Is Britain winning the fishing wars?
Patrick O’Flynn and David Scullion discuss where British fishing stands post-Brexit
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Was there a military revolution in early modern Europe?
Professor Jeremy Black explores and debunks some generalisations about war in early modern Europe
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
