The Critic - 2020-12-01

• No one guilty at the BBC
• Europe’s Eastern faultline
• WISEMAN’S AMERICA
• Making history
• The post-Covid city
• Marxist sleepers awaken
• Lessons for Biden
• Melanie McDonagh: The Irish Cookbook by J.P. McMahon; My Wild Atlantic Kitchen by Maura O’Connell Foley
• John Self: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke; Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe; Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit
• A letter to Jesus
• The lessons of Bosnia
• Defender of the faith
• Memoirs of a microaggre­ssor
• You don’t need to know
• The Churchill genocide myth
• The last conservati­ve PM
• Sounding Board
• Economics
• David Starkey
• Lisa Hilton: The Seven Ages of Man: How to Live a Meaningful Life by James Innes-Smith
• Julie Bindel: My First Little Book of Intersecti­onal Activism by Titania McGrath
• Douglas Carswell: Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil by Mark Leopold
• “Real” authors vs. celebritie­s
• Arty Types
• Jonathan Meades
• Romeo Coates
• Andrew Roberts: George III: Majesty and Madness by Jeremy Black
• David Womersley: The Story of Wine: From Noah to Now by Hugh Johnson
• Henry Jeffreys: Hungry by Grace Dent
• Paul Levy: Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Buford
• Matthew Adams: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
• Christophe­r Bray: Eight new books on rock and pop music
• Eating Out
• Christophe­r Silvester
• Adam LeBor
• Eating In
• Robert Fisk
• Sol y Sombra
• Country Notes
• Running Repairs
• Tickets, Please
• Root and Branch
• IN PRAISE OF LOCKDOWN
• ANCIENT UNIVERSITI­ES
• HEART OF ENGLAND
• EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE
• Piers and the gospel of gammon
• The paradox of Nazi culture
• Freedom and solitude
• Fishermen’s tails
• “Between you and me…”
• The Russians aren’t coming
• Do not go gently
• Tunes of glory
• Stars, stripes and dollars
• Carving out a new genre
• The Bells of Whitechape­l by Adam Dant

The Critic - 2020-10-01

The Critic - 2021-01-01