Perry Worsthorne
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies
Lord Geidt’s thankless task: teaching Boris not to fib
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Rhyme of the times
Within six weeks of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, most of Europe was at war
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
The Critic Books Podcast: Portable Magic
Lucasta Miller discusses Emma Smith’s new book
How Hitler won
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the Nazis won in 1933 with only a third of the vote
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up