Modernism
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
More than just a grumpy anti-modernist?
It’s time we appreciated the art of Sir Alfred Munnings
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Stumbling blocks
Owen Hatherley offers a vital but frequently flawed guide to post-war British architecture
We should be afraid of Virginia Woolf
Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet
Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
Why don’t we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?
The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture
House of fun
The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.