Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
The North American Question
Was the American Republic destined to dominate the continent?
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
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
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
How do you solve a problem like the protocol?
The apotheosis of Johnsonism
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
The magical LGBTQ+ myth factory
The LGBTQ+ lobby is making up “scientific” facts to win arguments
Free trade ain’t free
Who’s afraid of protectionism?
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream
The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
The last jubilee?
Many of us will never live to see a jubilee again — what will sustain the Windsors without spectacle?
Ben Fogle: Pukka prince of fluff
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal