The Critic - 1 Mai 2025

Table of content - The Critic (1 Mai 2025)

WHEN JENRICK COMES
The boarding up of Blackheath
A FORK IN THE ROAD
A FORK IN THE ROAD
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A champion for women
And that will be England gone
Don’t cry for Argentina
A temple in the Tudor manor
Two views of the end of empire
Strange new world
Patrick West: Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe
Matthew Reisz: The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century
Steven Brindle: London’s lost interwar interiors
Sounding Board
My Woke World
The convivial conservative
When the hunt is finally over
PROFILE: Nicolas (30 ans)
Chapel, chanting and chips
Enter stage right
Let’s be real about Ukraine
Iran: deal or devastation?
Jenrick: the Tories’ saviour
Bijan Omrani: Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy
Esmé Partridge: God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England
Iain MacGregor: The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
Charlie Bentley-Astor: Anywhere But Here: How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All
Law
Serious business
University Challenged
Arty Types
Everyday Lies
Helen Joyce
Woman about Town
Peston’s inbox
Christopher Snowdon
Romeo Coates
Armand D’Angour: The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History
When Nobody’s Listening: Inside Sweden’s Drugs Gangs
Letters
BOOKS
Norman Lebrecht
Charles Saumarez Smith
Eating Out
Henry Jeffreys
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Christopher Pincher
Art House Rufus Bird
Robert Hutton
Ben Sixsmith
Sarah Ditum
Alexander Larman
Adam LeBor
Michael Henderson
Robert Thicknesse
Michael Prodger
Patrick Galbraith: Open up the land
Claudia Savage-Gore
Stephen Pollard
Patrick Kidd: Rite of spring
Toby Young: Forlorn Hoop dreams
Boris Starling: Goodbye to Goodison
Hannah Betts
Making a good example
QUESTIONS OF LIFE AND DEATH
LODGE RE JOYCE
Holding judges to account
Woman About Town
PESTON’S INBOX
The return of turning left
Strange new world
Why cis women are bad at sports
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO DEFEND UKRAINE?
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO DEFEND UKRAINE?
IRAN: DEAL OR DEVASTATION?
Jenrick: the Tories’ bornagain saviour
Having one’s head examined
The convivial conservative
Anglicans need the Real Thing
When the hunt is finally over
Miriam Spector Ghostwriter
Enter stage right
On the march with the Skeletons
Don’t cry for Argentina
TWO VIEWS OF THE END OF EMPIRE
A sex realist and an idealist
How faith built the best of our nation
How faith built the best of our nation
The misunderstood satirist of sin
Age of influencers
The Nazi hunter
Turning a blind eye to the migration problem
Turning a blind eye to the migration problem
Troupers’ crime club
Is the future bright?
A fine bromance
A writer we should all be reading
As a novel in any form it’s a terrific achievement; as a debut We Pretty Pieces of Flesh seems miraculous
All the crises in one handy place
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
HAVING CALLED THE SHOTS ON TELEVISION AND FILM SETS
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
Russian music’s uncertain future
Remembering my old pal, “Peebs”
Alas and a lack of chemistry
Painters, lawyers and legacies
Behind the scenes at the museum
Behind the scenes at the museum
A taste of summer
Uncork the demon
MODs and rockers
Art for art’s sake
The pyjama game
The pyjama game
Art for art’s sake
Opening up the land
What’s up, doc?
Join the dots
North and South
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Toby young
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