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 June issue, pollster Scarlett Maguire explains how shifting voter behaviour is reprogramming Britain’s first-past-the-post system to magnify rather than minimise the power of previously minor parties. Sienna Rodgers lifts the lid on how Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party lost the plot, and Henry Hill finds a Conservative Party suffering an acute case of denial about its past and prospects. From Italy, Nicholas Farrell profiles Giorgia Meloni and the chances of her government surviving.

Away from politics, Andreas Campomar celebrates the life and English influences of the great Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, David Elstein looks at the issues in the new BBC director-general’s in-tray, and Sarah Ditum wonders if Confessions II marks the end of Madonna’s talent for reinvention, whilst Pierre d’Alancaisez and Lisa Hilton report from Venice’s art biennale.