Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
The “Scramble for Africa”
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
The North American Question
Was the American Republic destined to dominate the continent?
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
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
