The Critic

Archived since November 2019 / Issue 1
52 issues
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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.

Latest issue
In the November issue of The Critic, Andrew Orlowski examines why the National Grid is likely to fail sooner than we think, plunging Britain into blackouts; Jonathan Ford delves into the costly saga of state and corporate failure at Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard; Richard Negus exposes the error in the government’s biodiversity statistics whilst Laurent Lemasson and Gavin Mortimer examine why French voters prefer the policies of the Left and Right, yet neither win power.
Also, the ethicist Nigel Biggar and philosopher Bernard Henri-Lévy are profiled, Pierre d’Alancaisez deplores how art critics have become promoters, Robert Thicknesse extols London’s lost pleasure gardens, Sarah Ditum lauds the music of Kirsty MacColl, Robert Hutton reviews the latest political memoirs, Henry Jeffreys savours the “Barolo of the South” and on its fiftieth anniversary, Boris Starling relives the jabs and hooks that won the Rumble in the Jungle.

Subjects: Literature, News And Politics

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  • First Issue: November 2019 / Issue 1
  • Latest Issue: November 2024
  • Issue Count: 52
  • Published: Monthly