Rob Young
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland