In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860 and Combined Operations, talks toThe Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the reach and organisation of Britain's armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire and expeditionary campaigns around the world in the Victorian era. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: HM...
Jun 02, 2021•49 min
As the literary would comes out of its Covid-induced hibernation, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, discusses with the writer and journalist Alexander Larman, the merits of celebrity authors and literary book prizes. __ Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
May 28, 2021•23 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Waterloo and France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the shifting reputation of Napoleon Bonaparte. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Equestrian portrait of Napoleon I, 1810, by Joseph Chabord (1786-1848), oil on canvas. Napoleonic era, France, 19th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) M...
May 27, 2021•44 min
Are progressive leaders more moral than their conservative rivals or are they just better at doing politics? In this podcast The Critic's Online editor David Scullion discusses with Patrick Hess whether the likes of Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau are more machiavellian than Donald Trump. __ Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
May 24, 2021•21 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A History of the British Isles, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role of the queen, and the queen consort, in British and European history. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Queen Elizebeth, via Getty Images Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
May 19, 2021•46 min
Matthew Roberts, the Minister of Trinity Church York and Jo Bartosch, a writer and reporter for Lesbian and Gay news, share their concerns with The Critic's David Scullion about the proposed legislation to outlaw "gay cure". Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now we’re offering 5 issues for just £10. Go to thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.com/ for details.
May 14, 2021•32 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the centrality of religion to the status and mission of monarchy in Britain and Europe. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Queen Elizebeth II attends Easter Sunday service at St George's Chapel on April 21, 2019 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage) Music: Rad...
May 12, 2021•50 min
This week marked the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena. In this podcast, The Critic's publisher, Olivia Hartley, talks to Dr Arabella Byrne, a freelance journalist and writer with a doctorate in French Studies, about why, 200 years after his death, Bonaparte remains such a polarising figure in France and beyond. __ Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now w...
May 07, 2021•24 min
This week marked the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena. In this podcast, The Critic's publisher, Olivia Hartley, talks to Dr Arabella Byrne, a freelance journalist and writer with a doctorate in French Studies, about why, 200 years after his death, Bonaparte remains such a polarising figure in France and beyond. __ Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now w...
May 07, 2021•24 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about military monarchs and the relationship between crowned heads and brass hats. -- Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
May 06, 2021•47 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about military monarchs and the relationship between crowned heads and brass hats. -- Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
May 06, 2021•47 min
From fighting gender inequality with power poses to defeating racism with unconscious bias tests, psychologists are not shy when it comes to the claims they make about their field's ability to solve some of society's thorniest problems. In his new book, Quick Fix, the American journalist Jesse Singal exposes much of these claims as bunk that doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. In this podcast, the Critic's US Editor Oliver Wiseman spoke to Jesse about his new book, how bad ideas spread so easily...
May 05, 2021•20 min
In this week's edition of Black's History Week, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, asks Professor Jeremy Black about similarities and differences between British and European conceptions of monarchy. __ Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
Apr 30, 2021•48 min
In this week's edition of Black's History Week, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, asks Professor Jeremy Black about similarities and differences between British and European conceptions of monarchy. __ Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
Apr 30, 2021•48 min
In this week's edition of Black's History Week, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, asks Professor Jeremy Black about similarities and differences between British and European conceptions of monarchy. __ Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
Apr 30, 2021•48 min
Where has "modernising the royal family" taken Britain's monarchy and where can it go next? If the age of chivalry is dead, what can the crown put in its place? In this podcast, the historian of monarchs and monarchy, David Starkey, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Crown's delicate balance between reform, revolution, and sustaining a useful role. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now w...
Apr 23, 2021•42 min
Where has "modernising the royal family" taken Britain's monarchy and where can it go next? If the age of chivalry is dead, what can the crown put in its place? In this podcast, the historian of monarchs and monarchy, David Starkey, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Crown's delicate balance between reform, revolution, and sustaining a useful role. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now w...
Apr 23, 2021•42 min
Where has "modernising the royal family" taken Britain's monarchy and where can it go next? If the age of chivalry is dead, what can the crown put in its place? In this podcast, the historian of monarchs and monarchy, David Starkey, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Crown's delicate balance between reform, revolution, and sustaining a useful role. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. Right now w...
Apr 23, 2021•42 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of England in the Age of Austen, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited. -- Image: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817). (Photo by Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
Apr 22, 2021•57 min
The Chairman of the Northern Ireland Select Committee Simon Hoare and David Hoey, businessman and producer of the PoliticalOD podcast debate the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol with The Critic's Deputy Political Editor David Scullion.
Apr 20, 2021•34 min
In this week's edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister has evolved from the tenure of William Ewart Gladstone to Boris Johnson. _ Image: William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Engraving c1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
Apr 15, 2021•58 min
It is 300 years ago this month that Robert Walpole became prime minister of Great Britain. In this edition of Black's History Week, Walpole's biographer, Professor Jeremy Black, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries. _ Image: Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. The first Prime Minister of Great Britain.(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orc...
Apr 08, 2021•45 min
Is Beijing's growing assertiveness towards its neighbours and especially with Britain and the United States a reflection of Chinese self-confidence and an alternative world view that requires careful management? Or is it evidence of a determined hostility that requires a clear-headed strategy to address? And if the latter, what should that response involve? In this podcast, the former leader of the Conservative party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, against who Beijing has imposed sanctions in retaliatio...
Apr 06, 2021•20 min
Alex Salmond is encouraging Scottish nationalists to 'game' Holyrood's electoral system by voting for their SNP constituency candidate but on the regional ballot list voting for Salmond's Alba Party. Would the same tactical voting work for Scottish unionists? In this podcast, All For Unity's leader, Jamie Blackett makes the case for voting for George Galloway's pro-union alliance to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart. -- Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes t...
Apr 01, 2021•20 min
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice and Contesting History talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about archival research and whether the enthusiasm for reinterpreting the past as a means of influencing current controversies encourages historians to stray too far away from the available source material. Right now we’re offering 3 months for just £5. Go to thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.com/ for detail...
Apr 01, 2021•46 min
Is Sinn Fein's current popularity on both sides of the Irish border the fruition of decades of its left-wing campaigning paying off, or a conscious break from the past terrorist activities of Sinn Fein's armed wing, the IRA? How has Ireland's media responded and what part does Brexit play in renewed Irish Anglophobia? For over 40 years, Kevin Myers has been one of the most fearless and outspoken journalists in Ireland - but in 2017 he found himself effectively cancelled following a controversial...
Mar 24, 2021•48 min
The Critic's David Scullion talks to Nick Buckley about the reasons why he is standing for Mayor of Manchester. Right now we’re offering 3 months for just £5. Go to thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.com/ for details. (Photo by Rahman Hassani/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Mar 19, 2021•20 min
In this episode of The Critic's podcast, the theme is the dangers of our addiction to digital information, social media, and the algorithms that direct us to what to view next. The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, is joined by former olympic rower and broker Alex Story, who has recently written about "How Gen Z became Gen Me", and Robert Wigley, the chairman of UK Finance whose book Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation has just been published. __ Right now we’re offering ...
Mar 16, 2021•25 min
In this episode of The Critic's podcast, the theme is the dangers of our addiction to digital information, social media, and the algorithms that direct us to what to view next. The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, is joined by former olympic rower and broker Alex Story, who has recently written about "How Gen Z became Gen Me", and Robert Wigley, the chairman of UK Finance whose book Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation has just been published. __ Right now we’re offering ...
Mar 16, 2021•25 min
In this podcast, writer, photographer, and face of the March edition of The Critic, Laura Dodsworth talks about her cover piece, Faith Masks, which focusses on the ideological significance of mask-wearing and the quasi-religious narrative surrounding lockdown. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and iTunes to ensure you never you never miss an episode. __ Right now we’re offering 3 months for just £5. Go to thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.com/ for details. __
Feb 25, 2021•25 min
