Imperialism
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Public memory of the war in Iraq fails to consider the human cost
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
Revitalising the West
Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal
The Critic Books Podcast: Portable Magic
Lucasta Miller discusses Emma Smith’s new book
Being the girl in the green jumper
Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
What is a woman?
Laura Dodsworth interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour