Artillery Row
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
Dead men wave no flags
UK must not allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine
Russians … thousands of them!
Labour goes bear hunting for oligarchs
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
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
Black and blue
The feminist fix: Make the Sarah Everard inquiry a statutory investigation of internalised police misogyny
Cop out
Calling abusive policemen “monsters” relieves them of accountability
Boris did good
Nobody would want to be PM at a time like this