History
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
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
To catch a culture thief
A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
Pro-imperial truths of the old world
This magnificent one volume history details the tumultuous days of the Indian army in the jungles of Burma
The Battle of Britain was not won by the Few
We credit pluck for what we really owe to imperial and industrial might
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
The Qing-quisition
Why did the Chinese bureaucracy succeed where the Catholic Church failed?
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
