From the Anglo-Saxons to Israel and Palestine
The writer Samuel Rubinstein joins Ben Sixsmith to discuss historical controversies, political controversies and where the two meet.
Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
