Laura Thompson
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
Did Newton microaggress?
The government should stop supporting the EDI industry
The death of luxury
When did we all decide to stop travelling, and living, in style?
Starmer could do better
Boris would be a more effective leader of the opposition than Sir Keir
Hen don’t
DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Why Boris clung on
The Prime Minister knows his legacy is on the line
It’s a flying shame
A travel editor gives up planes… for a year
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
From Worms to woke
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content