The Critic

The Critic is Britain's new highbrow monthly current affairs magazine for politics, art and literature. Dedicated to rigorous content, first rate writing and unafraid to ask the questions others won't.

Where is Britain’s vision?

The Critic

A criminal abuse of the law • The endless humouring of people like Watson says nothing good about our criminal justice system, which is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent

Letters

Class war in the upper house • The end of the Lords’ ancient right to resolve peerage disputes is the latest casualty of Labour’s constitutional vandalism

Woman About Town

PESTON’S INBOX

Ban their benefits and deport them

THE FORLORN HOPE OF GROWTH • Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich. That’s a huge problem for the Prime Minister and a Labour government desperately clinging to…

EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE

ARE REFORM THE NEW GREENS? • As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion

BRAVE NEW WORLD – OR FOOLS’ PARADISE? • For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle not seen since the end of the British Empire. But are they pioneers of a new, carefree way of living or mediocre fugitives from reality?

Drill, baby, drill • We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say

The trans war on reality • Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more likely to kill than be killed, says Jo Bartosch

It’s high time we banned dogs

EUROPE’S FRENCH NUCLEAR SHIELD? • With the NATO alliance under threat, will Europe really trust President Macron’s offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?

BONFIRE OF THE FALLACIES • Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump administration.

A COUNTRY AT WAR WITH ITSELF • GREEN’S AMERICA Dominic Green says Washington politics can best be understood through the history of bitter factional in-fighting within both the Democratic and Republican parties

Sebastian Milbank believes space exploration lifts the human spirit and argues that rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”

No, the King has not converted • A bizarre conspiracy theory that Charles III is a Muslim is easily shown to be false

Alec Douglas-Home • The quintessential Tory grandee who was the last of his kind: a politician motivated by service to his country

Eric Snapper Anti-biographer

Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee

The sacrifice that changed V.S. Naipaul • The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion

Adam Dant on…

STUDIO • QUINLAN TERRY, ARCHITECT

Rich portrait of a master poet

Were we close to a revolution in 1926?

Shining a light on the culture wars

To defeat populism, don’t start here

Dignified design for the people

Under the volcano

The Muslim modernisers

Infamous five

The fateful road to the great dictators

Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure

London vs the rest of the country • The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan

Romeo Coates “Between you and me…”

The Boston barbarians

These violent delights

Sarah Ditum on Pop • Better Slayyyter than never

Alexander Larman on Theatre • Leading us a not-so-merry dance

Robert Hutton...