Rewriting History
Imperial misdemeanours
Getting at the truth about T H Huxley
How to alienate good people
Having insulted thousands of its blameless members, the Church of England now aims to embed racial distinction in its very structures
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
Papa can you hear me?
Offering prayers for the government — God knows they need them
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Does Sadiq Khan think he’s living in America?
The mayor of London should focus on representing the city that elected him
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality