History
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Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels
Rich and red: The USSR’s prize assets
The wealthy young Americans who laboured for decades to help the communist cause
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
Frustrate their knavish tricks?
Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?
Wandering women
The women who always walked alone
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
Could Harry and Meghan have learnt from Edward and Wallis?
Graham Stewart and Alexander Larman discuss how the House of Windsor adapts and endures
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
