Books
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
American Dirty Tricks
When white American author Jeanine Cummins wrote a novel about Mexican refugees a critical firestorm erupted
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
Culture Coaches
As The Critic enters into the podcasting business, Dominic Green surveys the world of motivational, self-affirming podcasts
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
