Black’s History Week
Was Parliament more rebellious in the eighteenth century?
The latest podcast in the Black’s History Week series: How does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member?
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
The Ruling Passion
Should former prime ministers gently fade away?
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
Will Reform conform?
Reform will become the Tories before replacing them
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
