Podcast
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
Was there a military revolution in early modern Europe?
Professor Jeremy Black explores and debunks some generalisations about war in early modern Europe
It’s time to resurrect forgiveness
The Critic Narrated: Episode Two, with Revd. Marcus Walker, Hannah Betts and Patrick Galbraith
Medieval Warfare
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the impacts on medieval warfare
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
Siege Warfare
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the defence and capture of walled cities and castles
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
