The Critic - 1 Aug 2025
Moment in the sun
THE NIGEL PRINCIPLE
Christopher Montgomery: Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce; Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II
The man with a masterplan
PROFILE: Sir Roy Strong
Bulldozing Britain’s brand
Cooking the books
The fading flame of fellowship
Who can rescue the Right?
Mark Mason: The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare
Auntie at the precipice
I didn’t like cricket; now I love it
The camping trip
Plausibility is not truth
We can’t publish this!
Let’s hear it for early music
A walk on the wild side
Take back London for pedestrians
Sounding Board
My Woke World
Politics
How Europe failed us
Arty Types
Iain MacGregor: Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
Andrew Tettenborn: Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights
David Abulafia: Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present
Christopher Akers: Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
Daniel Johnson: The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
Conor McKee: Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century
William Aslet: Oxford Libraries: Architecture
Matthew Reisz: The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
Sarah Moorhouse: Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945
Law
Peston’s inbox
Serious business
University Challenged
Everyday Lies
Helen Joyce
Woman about Town
Romeo Coates
David James: Homework: A Memoir
Graham Elliott: The Last Jewish Joke
Chamberlin; The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991
Letters
John Self: Books to transport you
Cool London
Are we really “post-literate” now?
THIS SPORTING LIFE
Charles Saumarez Smith
Art House
Hot House
Deluxe
Landscapes
Country Notes
Eating In
Eating Out
Robert Hutton
Adam LeBor
Sarah Ditum
Ben Sixsmith
Pierre d’Alancaisez
Drink
Style
Alexander Larman
Michael Henderson
Robert Thicknesse
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
The weird and wonderful fringe
The BBC’s fanfare for a fanatic
AN ELEMENT OF DOUBT
IN DEFENCE OF BURKE
IMPOSTER SYNDROME
Lifting the cloak of invisibility
Woman About Town
PESTON’S INBOX
The rip-off behind the ritual
When the young backed Britain
Who can rescue the Right?
A walk on the wild side
Return London to pedestrians
AUNTIE AT THE PRECIPICE
AUNTIE AT THE PRECIPICE
The bibliophobe barbarians clearing the library shelves
I didn’t like cricket. now I love it
Bulldoze Britain’s brand
Bulldoze Britain’s brand
Cooking the books
Sir Roy Strong
Sir Roy Strong
The Hon. Jeremy Wellbourne Radical Publisher
EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE
The man with a masterplan
The man with a masterplan
First signs of an Anglican spring
Plausibility is not truth
Plausibility is not truth
LET’S HEAR IT FOR EARLY MUSIC
We can’t publish this!
Arrest this high priest of hate
Adam Dant on...
Adam Dant on...
The man who knew, but could not do
The man who knew, but could not do
A saga of survival
Cutting a long story too short
The Critic Books
The court that stops us speaking our mind
Why magic replaced God for millennials
Writing the first draft of history
Old-fashioned history
It’s no Globe
Timeless temples of the written word
Timeless temples of the written word
Too clever for their own good
Too clever for their own good
Durrell dissected
Elegy for a lost world
The end of the schtick
Africa to the French seaside via Greece
Are we really “post-literate” now?
Romeo Coates
After deciding to give her french riviera residence
Romeo Coates
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
The weird and wonderful fringe
Best behaviour can be “rock ‘n’ roll” too
Best behaviour can be “rock ‘n’ roll” too
Stereophonic hits all the right notes
Brad Pitt has the formula for success
Ten of the best for holiday viewing
The BBC’s fawning fanfare for a fanatic
A can-can of happiness
Save our sauces
Hedonists’ heaven
Mixed messages
Fill your boots
Mixed messages
Headline here
The plastic plague
Charm offensive
My summer of sex (as if )
Patrıck KıDD
Stephen pollard
Borıs starlıng
Borıs starlıng
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