Podcast
Hail to the Chief (Part II)
The American Civil War and the expansion of executive power
What’s the point of Tory Party Conference?
Corporate and expensive, has Tory Party Conference had its day?
Trump v Biden: what did we learn from the first presidential debate?
The Critic’s US editor spoke to the publisher and editor of American Greatness, Chris Buskirk
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
Can George Galloway keep Scotland British?
The Alliance 4 Unity is the wildcard in Scottish politics
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
The Ruling Passion
Should former prime ministers gently fade away?
Why is Britain good at R&D but has so few major tech companies?
Mike Lynch offers his solutions – from ARM to post-Brexit regulation
Frustrate their knavish tricks?
Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?
Is there a way back for Scottish Labour?
And does it start with sacking its leader, Richard Leonard? Graham Stewart asks John McTernan
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The menace of camouflage
There’s something dark about the spread of sartorial concealment to civilians
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
