The Critic

The Critic is Britain's new highbrow monthly current affairs magazine for politics, art and literature. Dedicated to rigorous content, first rate writing and unafraid to ask the questions others won't.

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A real decolonisation dispute • Nobody has asked the Chagos Islanders if they wish to be independent of Britain

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The kids are alt-right • Outside the Anglosphere, right-wing populism is a youth movement

Adverts: social justice education

WHY RUSSIA IS STILL IN BUSINESS • Patrick Porter says poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war

Feminism’s dangerous false utopia • Kittie Helmick believes the modern battle for women’s rights has now fallen prey to a self-defeating brand of power politics

EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Lessons of The Jetsons • Michael Lind says the economic future foretold by the 1960s cartoon could hardly have been wider of the mark

Snakes and ladders • Only the weak and vain are tempted by lobbyists and the lure of a trip to the Palace

HOW NOT TO SOLVE A CRIME • Theodore Dalrymple says the police’s dilatory response to a minor case exemplifies our national sclerosis

Pray for the republicans • Rejoice in the sheer religiosity of the Coronation. It places the King above the political fray

NATURAL GOODNESS • Rewilding projects will never grow enough to feed the nation. A new model of nature-friendly farming is a better solution

Toryism à la mode • Andrew Cusack asks if the victorious legacy of French Gaullism can breathe life into listless British conservatism

OK DOOMER: WHY SPENGLER MATTERS • The German thinker is enjoying a resurgence of popularity, with his works on the cyclical nature of history and the rise and fall of civilisations becoming required reading by the Right

Part of the Union? • The SNP’S flair for self-harm is the last bulwark against Scottish independence

#AwardsSoDiverse

Dierdre Malone • Marginal Presence

As safe as the Bank of England? • Blame the Bank for soaring prices, not the working class, the elderly and the sick

Beware the false victim • Julie Bindel says history shows the folly of insisting that certain classes of people can do no wrong

Heirs to Byzantium • PAUL STEPHENSON says that unlike Putin, the British have never really understood the central importance of Constantinople to European history

A tale of two tribes • David Conway asks why the fortunes of central Europe’s Roma and Jewish musicians have diverged so greatly

THE ANCIENT SACRED CEREMONY AT THE HEART OF A VERY MODERN CORONATION

The 1953 Rite

Adam Dant on …

STUDIO • Vittore Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings, Palazzo Ducale, Venice

The technocratic face of authoritarianism

Bringing The Bacchae to the bush

The preserve of the forelock-tuggers

Anatomy of a medical scandal

A civilised discussion

The country that went to the wall

Deconstructing a giant of the screen

The rich and varied past of our islands

Old Man River

Playing it by the book

Plenty of atmosphere — but only one ha-ha

Don’t believe the hype • The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily

Romeo Coates • “Between you and me …”

Norman Lebrecht on Music • The Apple of my...