Podcast
Advance, legionaries
The Romans and the development of British roads
Lies, damned lies, and biopics
Ridley Scott’s casual treatment of truth in Napoleon does a disservice to both history and storytelling
Geopolitics in the modern world
How does it help us to understand our times?
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
Sparks within the cold
There are rarely easy answers in geopolitics
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Before the wall’s fall
Geopolitical maneuverings between the East and the West
The Domino Effect
1960s geopolitics, propaganda and the Vietnam War
Who governs Britain?
David Scullion joins the Critic to discuss working for Suella, the culture of Westminster, and fighting the blob
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
