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.

The Critic is Britain’s monthly current affairs and culture magazine, dedicated to rigorous content and first-rate writing — and unafraid to ask the questions others won’t.

In the November issue of The Critic, Paul Goodman assesses whether the declining popularity of the Conservatives was a progressive disenchantment over time or the consequence of a tipping point from which the party has not recovered.

Also, Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel delve into the world of kink fetish activism and come to disturbing conclusions about what motivated Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Francisco Ceballos questions the medical wisdom of the NHS, downplaying the consequences of cousin marriage. Richard Negus asks, “What do farmers really want?” Toby Young examines whether, this time, non-crime hate incidents really are about to be abolished. Julie Bindel talks to the comedienne Julie Stanton, aka Intel Lady. Sarah Ditum loves the new album by The Divine Comedy, and Sean McGlynn finds the spirit and vision of Paul Cezanne alive and well in Aix-en-Provence.