The Critic - 1 Mai 2024

Table of content - The Critic (1 Mai 2024)

TEARS OF THE EAST
| WHO’S WATCHING BIG BROTHER?
SORDID SECRETS OF THE 68ERS
THE COURT OF HOT AIR
THE COURT OF HOT AIR
Dear Keir, get real ...
BOOKS Jonathan Parry: Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
Pushing the boundaries
British spies and the IRA
Remember the Armenians
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
We are the cultural Norns
Profile: Alcibiades
AI and the great data robbery
The future is blue
Do you trust PC Big Brother?
Michael Ledger-Lomas: Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
David James: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The new Ottomans
The king and the boss
This England
Sounding Board
My Woke World
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Alex Middleton: Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Pierre d’Alancaisez: Battle for the Museum: Cultural Institutions in Crisis
Josey Wright: God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
Darren O’Byrne: How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
Norman Lebrecht: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Rehearsing and Performing its 1824 Premiere
Phoebe Arslanagic-Little: Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
Adam Dant on …
New life for a dying trade
Romeo Coates
Helen Joyce
Law
Arty Types
Woman about Town
Nova’s diary
Serious business
Everyday Lies
Economics
Christopher Bray: Kubrick: An Odyssey
Tell by Jonathan Buckley; Overstaying
Letters
John Self: The Home Child
“Thou should knowest by now that thou cannot walk up to a female co-worker and tell her that age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety …”
Eating Out
Making art from the holocaust
Drawing on the lessons of history
Claudia Savage-Gore is sick and tired of her many WhatsApp groups
Felipe Fernández-Armesto considers the etiquette of eating with your hands
Henry Jeffreys recommends a good, affordable Californian wine
Rufus Bird on the profusion of international art fairs
Christopher Pincher advises on how to avoid titfer tat
Patrick Galbraith rues our hateful attitude to the grey squirrel
Stephen Pollard worries about a matter of National concern
Hannah Betts keeps her inner Teddy Boy at bay with a t-shirt
Patrick Kidd: Cricket’s triple threat
A visit to the National Gallery
Loony tunes and operatic madness
Beyoncé makes a bad record
The princess and the penis
The Mousetrap on its anniversary
Let’s hear it for violence
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Two sides of the weird frontier
Nick Timothy: Playing the ball
Patrick Kidd: The final lap
A sound of Rowling thunder
A MUSICAL WALMART
OPERA IS NOT THE ONLY ART
RADIO GA GA
HARSH JUDGMENT
Can a criminal be a judge?
Woman About Town Cafavy’s happening
NOVA’S DIARY
Dear Keir, Get real ...
The future is blue
Put the money back into politics
Would you trust the police’s Big Brother IT?
Would you trust the police’s Big Brother IT?
Gregory Snaith Little Magazine Editor
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Time for realpolitik in Israel
EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE
The new Ottomans
The king and the boss
Remember the Armenians
Remember the Armenians
Existential questions
The sordid truth about France’s “68ers”?
The sordid truth about France’s “68ers”?
Why Meghan is my role model
“Critical space” is shrinking but we are fighting back
The Critic Profile Alcibiades
The Critic Profile Alcibiades
AI AND THE GREAT DATA ROBBERY
This England
This England
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
The subsidy squeeze
DID AN ARMY OF SPIES END THE TROUBLES?
Adam Dant on...
Adam Dant on...
STUDIO
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Losing the battle, losing the war
Was The Bible written by slaves?
The glorious Ninth
Big beasts versus The Bible
Big beasts versus The Bible
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Fighting lies with lies
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
Fruitful discussion
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
New life for a dying trade
Romeo Coates
i gather mr cleese has fallen into the clutches
“Between you and me …”
first blood to sam
Making art of the Holocaust
Loony tunes
Having a bad Bey
Having a bad Bey
X scandal
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
Violent delights
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Word pictures at a gallery
Two sides of the weird frontier
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Moroccan gold
PATRICK GALBRAITH rues our hateful attitude to the problematic grey squirrel
FELIPE FERNÁNDEZARMESTO considers the etiquette of eating with your fingers
HENRY JEFFREYS recommends a good, affordable, California wine
STEPHEN POLLARD offers some reasons to be cheerful for horse racing
CHRISTOPHER PINCHER advises steering clear of titfer tat
CLAUDIA SAVAGE-GORE hates her WhatsApp groups
LISA HILTON enjoys magical meals in Morocco
HANNAH BETTS banishes her inner Ted with a white t-shirt
RUFUS BIRD on the profusion of international art fairs
Hand to mouth
California dreaming
So many art fairs, so little time
Steering clear of titfer tat
Food for thought
Reasons to be cheerful
Tee is for trend
Don’t ask WhatsApp
PATRICK KIDD
NICK TIMOTHY
BORIS STARLING

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