This week Graham Stewart spoke to author DJ Taylor about the many women pursued by the novelist George Orwell – and he caught up with TV Critic Adam LeBor to discuss Channel 4’s monarchy-based satire ‘The Windsors’.

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This week Richard Waghorne argues for keeping people in the dark when it comes to Coronavirus to improve morale, Sarah Ditum, our new Pop Critic talks about how TikTok is influencing the way music is written and Oliver Wiseman gives an update on the US election 2020.

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Is Parliament’s role to be a check on government (as John Bercow believed) or a means of government (as Boris Johnson expects)? In this week’s Critic podcast Professor David Starkey distills 750 years of parliamentary history to challenge the notion of a constitutional separation of powers. David’s latest article can be found by clicking here.

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Steve Baker, the long-standing chairman of the European Research Group, has stepped down and given an exclusive interview with The Critic magazine.

The Critic’s Deputy Political Editor David Scullion has written a profile on the Brexiteer here but you can listen to our interview with him Political Editor Graham Stewart below:

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This week Graham spoke to US Editor Oliver Wiseman about Mike Bloomberg’s unorthodox attempt to win the Democratic nomination and Joseph Connolly explains why he gives men a dressing down in his latest piece for The Critic.

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his week on The Critic podcast we spoke to John Whittingdale MP, 24 hours before he was made a Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

But while he was critical of the current “regressive” method of collection, John Whittingdale made clear to us that he believes there is no credible alternative except being funded from general taxation – an idea he is not fond of because of the increase in power it might give to the state.

Also on the podcast this week we spoke to writer Alexander Larman on the recent Academy Awards: giving his verdict on whether the Oscars are going to stay woke – a subject he has written about here – and Graham caught up with Adam Dant on a pub crawl of SW1 for some serious tavern-based research on the division bells of Westminster.

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Today we launch a new weekly podcast where we’ll be speaking to MPs, peers, pundits and – (of course!) – our Critics.

In the first episode we chatted to former trade minister Peter Lilley on what Boris Johnson can learn from Margaret Thatcher’s huge Commons majority and we caught up with regular Critic writers Hannah Betts and Robert Thicknesse on the enduring power of wearing black and the politics of opera.

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