DJ Taylor
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
