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.

A gross dereliction of duty

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The trans craze aftermath

Should we blow up drug boats? • The US government has killed almost 100 people in its attacks on small vessels. The policy has its supporters

Woman About Town

PESTON’S INBOX

Zach and Zara’s jobs are no more • Struggling Gen Z graduates can get ahead, but they will have to change with changing times

A question of identity • Mark Littlewood says the Tories have failed to adapt to Britain’s seismic political realignment

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ARMY • This country’s soldiers lack the ammunition, combat supplies and medical support to fight a war. They are poorly trained. More than 25 per cent are too unfit to even be deployed. How on earth did we get to this point?

The danger of civil service overreach • It cannot be right that a scrupulous approach to working within the law and one’s remit could be deemed to be in breach of the Civil Service Code. A thorough review is needed

TIME TO CHANGE THE PROGRAMME • Robert Crowcroft says the failed doctrine of liberal multiculturalism has dominated British political discourse for too long, leaving voters angry, disenchanted and disengaged

Online screening: the inconvenient truth

Labour: a party for nostalgics • Outflanked and out of favour, it’s difficult to imagine Keir Starmer’s government ever recovering from this disastrous year

Realism versus Restraint • To understand Washington’s foreign policy we need to grasp the difference between two different impulses often in conflict with each other

The frosty frontier • Donald Trump’s talk of annexing Canada is merely the latest salvo in America’s long history of hostility towards its northern neighbour

Christmas at the crossroads • We must pull ourselves out of our current malaise if we are to say we can live, and live well

Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along • After an installation mimicking graffiti on the pillars of Canterbury Cathedral caused an outcry, with the US vice president among its fierce critics, Pierre d’Alancaisez reflects on …

Why can’t we all wear stab vests?

The Critic Profile Simon Raven • He was dissolute, licentious and a blackguard but this controversial writer could also produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous

Gary Lomax Rock & Roll Dilettante

Crime and Christianity • Patrick Kidd traces novelist Dorothy L. Sayers’s work as a churchwarden in central London

EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Coalhenge: Britain’s colossal wonders • Often reviled as eyesores, the awe-inspiring cooling towers of our pensioned-off power stations should be preserved as monuments to our coal-powered past

STUDIO • Georges De La Tour: From Shadow to Light at the Musée Jaquemart André

Adam Dant on …

More than merely a magician with words

The folly of self-flagellation

History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda

Bogged down in intellectual foppery

The great divide

Such stuff as dreams are made on

How to halt the continental drift

States of uncertainty

Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”

The movies’ maestro

A long shelf life

Misguided mission to explain

Waste product

Alpine lyricism

Losing Truman

Heroes, villains and lessons in life

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Debuts, comebacks and suprises

Spare me your “Books of the Year” • Or, how to come across as a person of taste and...