Andrew Roberts
The Critic Books Podcast: George III
Graham Stewart and Andrew Roberts discuss the life and reign of Britain’s most misunderstood monarch
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
The Critic Interview: Andrew Roberts
Graham Stewart meets the historian and biographer who is as familiar with today’s leaders as with the great figures of the past
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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
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Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
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Exile and exaltation
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Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people