Books
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers
Charles Moore’s multi-volume biography of Thatcher harks back to an ancient tradition
Inside Number 10
Jack Brown showcases hidden heroes, the history of the building and the famous figures who have passed through
The anarchy lacks context
Dalrymple’s Anarchy says more about about a selling machine somewhat different to the East India Company
Hidden London
Hidden London’s evocative photos of dereliction will fascinate commuters and tourists alike
In defence of the US nation
Richard Reinsch reviews The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry
Closet hippy of the SAS
Billingham is tight-lipped about his time in the SAS. His work afterwards provides the funniest anecdotes
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Sissy porn and trans dirty laundry
Louise Perry reviews Females by Andrea Long Chu
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
Red sky at night, Corbyn’s delight?
How weather will affect the election result
Welcome to The Critic
The opinions which govern modern Britain should be seen as such — opinions. We will drag them kicking and screaming into public view
Who won the party leaders’ Question Time?
The PM came on one-and-a-half hours into the interrogation, by which stage some may have tuned out
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
Seventies heaven
Biden, Sanders and Warren battle it out to take on Trump