Earl of Strafford
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails