Prussia
Odesa: The Battle for a City’s Soul
Putin’s war has only strengthened the Ukrainian identity of a port where many have turned against their own Russian language and want to tear down Moscow’s imperial monuments
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
The Critic Books Podcast: Devotion
A story of love in nineteenth century Prussia and Australia
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet