Podcast
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
The Indian Mutiny
Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
The Critic Books Podcast: Learwife
The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
