The Critic Narrated
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
It’s time to resurrect forgiveness
The Critic Narrated: Episode Two, with Revd. Marcus Walker, Hannah Betts and Patrick Galbraith
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
