Podcast
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
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
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
