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
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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
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes