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.

Welcome to The Critic — 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 May issue, Fred Sculthorp reports from Dubai, where gripes from many of the quarter of a million British expats there are directed less at incoming Iranian drones and more against what fellow Britons who stayed at home think about their dreams and achievements.

Political coverage includes Harry Hill going in search of Labour’s plan for growth, Reform’s offer to farmers and an interview with the party’s Zia Yusuf. Daniel DePetris examines whether, in the absence of Trump’s America, France could offer Europe its nuclear shield.

Also, Sebastian Milbank marvels at the promise of space exploration, Clive Aslet salutes the modern classical architect, Quinlan Terry, Jaspreet Singh Bopari explores a sacrificial act that shaped V.S. Naipaul, and Patrick Kidd bemoans the absence of either a Scotland or England World Cup song.