Heiresses
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
Bad Penny
Mordaunt should be more open about her role in the gender wars
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
Levelling up to where?
The chatterati are in no place to lecture
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies
Lord Geidt’s thankless task: teaching Boris not to fib
Kemi Badenoch’s misplaced priorities
Culture wars won’t seem quite as important in the cold
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
We are failing rape victims
The vulnerable are sacrificed to indulge the entitled