The Critic

The Critic is Britain’s new monthly magazine for politics, ideas, art, literature and much more. Co-edited by Michael Mosbacher and Christopher Montgomery, The Critic exists to push back against a self-regarding and dangerous consensus that finds critical voices troubling, triggering, insensitive and disrespectful. The point is not provocation or trolling. The point of honest criticism is to better approach truth, not deny its possibility.

Ossified thought and a lack of intellectual rigour are depressing features of all sides of today’s political and cultural debate. Our writers will subscribe to no editorial line nor serve the interests of any party, faction or cause. We ask them to write because we expect them to be honest, and lucidly so. Look to our contributors and fault us if they are not. 

Contributors to the magazine include Jonathan Meades, Douglas Murray, Nick Cohen, Joshua Rozenberg, Anne McElvoy, Norman Lebrecht, Daniel Johnson, Lisa Hilton, Hannah Betts and Artists in Residence Adam Dant and Miriam Elia.

In the March issue of The Critic, Fred Skulthorp reveals the extent of the crisis facing tv news channels whilst Paul Goodman finds a less deferential media is eating newspapers for breakfast. Jonathan Ford profiles Britain’s Net Zero supremo, Ed Miliband, David Starkey blames Lord Bingham for judicial activism, Robert Lyman identifies the military miscalculations that stopped Russia from overrunning Ukraine and Jo Bartosch finds that championing neurodiversity is the next big thing on campus. Also, William Cook asks if East German art was any good, Stephen Bayley finds reasons to suspect the proposed memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will be awful, Henry Jeffreys uncorks a range of celebrity-endorsed wines, Jason Athanasiadis discovers Thessaloniki’s conveniently forgotten history, Patrick Kidd admires Georgian rugby and Toby Young has a bone to pick with VAR.