Audiobook
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
It’s time to resurrect forgiveness
The Critic Narrated: Episode Two, with Revd. Marcus Walker, Hannah Betts and Patrick Galbraith
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
