The Critic Books Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
The Critic Books Podcast: The Gardener
On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
