“Goethe was a patriot,” writes Daniel Johnson, “But he had grasped that Napoleon was acting as a midwife in the birth of the German nation”
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A few thoughts on Germany.

Jeffrey Meyers explains why so
many art historians have got Manet’s ‘Olympia’ wrong by assuming that she is intended to depict a prostitute: thearticle.com/the-history-of…

Enlightening, important and chilling interview for TheArticle by John Ware with Sir John Jenkins, the UK’s leading expert on Hamas: thearticle.com/hamas-israel-a…

Responding to the Sunday Telegraph scoop on the takeover of the Armed Forces by diversity warriors, Lt Gen Robert Fry offers historical context and common sense thearticle.com/defence-divers…

Whatever your opinion of Kemi Badenoch she is the most interesting Conservative politician of this Parliament. I interviewed her for The Times and The Sunday Times about Nigeria, race, her parents, marriage and values. thetimes.co.uk/article/kemi-b…

“It is Ukraine, not Russia, that is fighting its ‘Great Patriotic War’,” argues Daniel Johnson, “This year will show whether the Atlantic alliance is equal to the challenge of giving Zelenskyy the tools to finish the job”
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Ukraine Is Committed to Europe and Democracy - a powerful case for the Ukrainian cause, made by several former US ambassadors to Kyiv plus.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-comm…

Send the tools to finish the job | Daniel Johnson | The Critic Magazine thecritic.co.uk/send-the-tools…

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Our February issue's on newsstands next week but subscribers get it first! Contributors this month include Helen Joyce Rufus Bird Nick Clairmont Daniel Johnson Lisa Hilton Henry Jeffreys' book is full of swearing Robert Hutton Christopher Silvester Patrick Kidd & Adam LeBor author, critic, editorial trainer
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James Orr Andrew The Critic Books For The Critic Books, Daniel Johnson reviewed Wagner’s Parsifal: 'With this climactic coda to his career, Scruton completed the great trilogy he devoted to Wagner ...' thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-20…

The beginning of communications thearticle.com/the-beginning-…

Will a new generation of young liberals reverse the rise of the nationalist Right in France? My Telegraph essay on Macron’s ‘dauphin’, Gabriel Attal telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Critic contributing editor & TheArticle editor Daniel Johnson chose Robin Lane Fox’s Homer and His Iliad as one of his non-fiction books of 2023: ‘Lane Fox “decided to outdo Alexander by running naked round what I took to be the entire city of Troy”’.
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Killing people and breaking things? There's a lot more to war and armies than that reports Daniel Johnson, who is reviewing a rich harvest of literature on the topic.
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For anyone who wants to know more about two rival capitals of ideas, ideology and inhumanity, both divided by the Allies in 1945, Daniel Johnson recommends John Kampfner’s In Search of Berlin and Richard Cockett’s Vienna thecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…

My Non-Fiction Books of the Year for ‘The Critic’. Laurels go to: Antonia Fraser, Laura Freeman, Andrew Roberts, Robin Lane Fox, Jonathan Sumption, David Ekserdjian, Piers Paul Read, Michael Frayn, Timothy Garton Ash, Matthew Goodwin and Richard Cockett thecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…

My Non-Fiction Books of the Year for ‘The Critic’. Laurels go to: Antonia Fraser, Laura Freeman, Andrew Roberts, Robin Lane Fox, Jonathan Sumption, David Ekserdjian, Piers Paul Read, Michael Frayn, Timothy Garton Ash, Matthew Goodwin and Richard Cockett thecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…