The Troubles
From terrorism to triumph
Sinn Fein have nothing to offer Ireland but division
How the British Army fought the IRA
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles
A literary pilgrimage to a watery grave
Following in the footsteps of the author J.G. Farrell
Gerry Adams was not in the IRA
This is not an article on the internet
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
It’s time to resurrect forgiveness
The Critic Narrated: Episode Two, with Revd. Marcus Walker, Hannah Betts and Patrick Galbraith
Ferrucio Busoni: Elegies (Chandos)
British pianist Peter Donohoe’s recital is a perfect pick-me-up for Covid gloom
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
Poetry matters
When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?
Into the mystic
Contemporary debates over the “suitability” of many operas leaves us with only English productions
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour