Gary Oldman
Hopkins and Oldman: The very best of British actors
Following the recent Oscar nod for Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman, Alexander Larman looks at other parallels between the two thespians
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Do not go gently after that bad knight
It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!
What drove the colonisation of the Caribbean?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses Caribbean society pre-Columbus
June: Letters to the Editor
Ukraine provides the best argument for why countries should not lightly discard nuclear weapons
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake