Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts
The Boer War
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
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
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
The nihilism of newcomers
They are stripped of any of the authentic social systems that sustain us
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Murders for January
Murder mysteries to brighten the winter gloom
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Je suis Charlie, ten years on
We must never succumb to the jihadi’s veto
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
