Crime Series
A very English take on espionage
Alexander Larman on the newest release in Mick Herron’s best-selling and critically acclaimed Jackson Lamb crime series: Slough House
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
