18th Century
The Eastern Question and the origins of The Great Game
How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
