American War of Independence
Slain Jane
Vanderlyn’s incendiary painting of British perfidy and indigenous brutality
What Anglo-American tradition?
Winners and losers in the history of ideas
The good sense of King George
Why we should listen to the Tories who opposed 1776
The Critic Books Podcast: George III
Graham Stewart and Andrew Roberts discuss the life and reign of Britain’s most misunderstood monarch
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling