First World War
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Tales of Gallipoli
New books keep history alive, as it should be
The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Some wars are just
A new film of a classic First World War novel focuses attention on the pacifism of the German elite that denies Ukraine the means of liberation
What we have forgotten
Modernity as a collective act of amnesia
Rhyme of the times
Within six weeks of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, most of Europe was at war
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
