The Critic - 2021-03-01

• Whitehall takes the knee
• John Self:
• Cheques and balances
• Grand old warrior
• Public enemy number whatever
• Sealed with a Glasgow kiss
• Putting a price on scholarshi­p
• The ultimate luxury
• Three days of slaughter
• WISEMAN’S AMERICA
• Resurrect Reagan
• Keynesian inflation experiment
• Culture club
• Ex-Libris: Mood music
• Cancelled by his college
• Blinded by science
• Faith masks
• The specture of totalitari­anism
• Everyday Lies
• Sounding Board
• My woke world
• David Starkey
• Christophe­r Fildes: Making a Modern Central Bank
• Christophe­r Bray: Francis Bacon: Revelation­s by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
• Lincoln Allison: Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football
• THE SECRET AUTHOR
• Arty Types
• Dr Green’s Dictionary
• Romeo Coates
• Jonathan Meades
• Serenhedd James: Follies: An Architectu­ral Journey
• James Kirchick: The Glamour Boys
• Barry Turner: A Perch in Bohemia
• Jonathan Clark: What's Wrong with Rights?
• Natascha Engel: Out of the Ordinary
• Alexander Larman: To the End of the World
• There's been some perfectly decent work since Puccini's day
• Blistering barnacles! Hergé's original Tintin drawings go for millions
• Take a leaf out of sport's book and give the public something to enjoy
• The pandemic and the BBC Sounds app have given the radio play new life
• The BBC series The Repair Shop is a welcome haven in difficult times
• Claudia Savage-Gore endures home-schooling hell
• Felipe Fernández-Armesto says forget fads, and eat simply and well
• Lisa Hilton savours sublime Michelinst­arred beetroot
• Christophe­r North salutes an elegant, enigmatic master of the bullring
• Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely roadkill roe buck
• Hephzibah Anderson plots her plot with a paper and pencil
• Nick Cohen on natural justice: if you train, you get faster
• Hannah Betts says a rainbow of colours is the currency of the Covid crisis
• Thomas Woodham-Smith shares the secrets of Portobello Road market
• Tom Chesshyre welcomes "Amtrak Joe" Biden to the White House
• Country will never be cool
• Associatio­n Football
• ROBOTIC SEX
• Nollywood comes of age
• A treasure trove of memories

The Critic - 2021-01-01

The Critic - 2021-04-01