J.R. Thorp
The Critic Books Podcast: Learwife
The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
