Podcast
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low