Artillery Row
Porn in a time of war
Ukrainian refugee pornography exploits suffering for profit
Like Stalin, like Putin
Putin is having his Stalin moment, and may regret it
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
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect