Rock
Bedtime reading for boomers
You will search in vain for a new life of any rocker who made his name after the advent of punk
The Critic Books Podcast: George III
Graham Stewart and Andrew Roberts discuss the life and reign of Britain’s most misunderstood monarch
London Nights (Capriccio)
Intelligent and well played though it is, Franziska Lee’s album of Londonoid piano pieces can’t make a bad sonata better
Dr Labourstein’s monster
Knighthood or no knighthood, Tony Blair will never be re-habilitated
Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
Sublime in Seville
Happiness is a cold, autumnal day with a warm gun
More Marxism than Methodism
Traditional religious minorities have a lot to offer the UK — but no one to represent them
Dilyn the Dog plays charades
Bozzo is getting to know his MPs
Knit picking
The invisible knitting of Michelle Obama led to the cancellation of Kristy Glass
The second gender war
After a year of progress, “conversion therapy ban” law threatens to resurrect bad gender policy all over again
Prisoner of conscience
Ceri Black faces prosecution for tweeting that child rapists and their enablers should be stopped