History
Punta del where?
Old Europe lives on in the new world
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
My interiors life: weaned on the small screen
My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?
Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII
Glaring omissions of a whistle-stop tour
Carey is the tour guide of a magnificent villa telling of the wonders that lie beyond a closed door
A life indecently full of fun and games
This is not a journey you will find in most accounts of the twentieth century
Canada’s war on children
Teacher Carolyn Burjoski dared to question the trans lobby, and the reaction was straight out of the TRA handbook
Sublime in Seville
Happiness is a cold, autumnal day with a warm gun
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
Solar energy is a pipe dream — if Europe is serious about net-zero, we should invest in nuclear
Who are friends to judge us?
It turns out the system was wrong, we now discover
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
Is Brexit a Christmas movie?
Rob Hutton watches telly so you don’t have to
Arrest the chest
The danger of endorsing extreme gender ideology
Buckle down or buckle under
If Canada’s conservative party can’t hold together, they can resign themselves to opposition status
The diverse legacy of Robert Jervis
The death of Jervis is a huge loss for the study of international relations
Green light for hysteria
There are times when precaution stands in the way of what is right