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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Not justice, by a long stretch • Thousands of petty criminals face life in jail because of a failed sentencing policy

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JUSTICE IS NOT RACIST • Charlie Peters says concerns about political correctness are preventing too many MPs from properly addressing the scandal of sex-grooming gangs

Why the death penalty can be progressive

HOW BRITAIN TURNED ITS BACK ON ITS YOUNG • Ellen Pasternack says soaring rents, punitive tax and the cost of living crisis risks making the country into a version of the dystopian novel The Children of Men

EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Anglo-Saxon extremists • Samuel Rubinstein attacks the historical errors of the

How the University of Oxford destroyed one of the world’s great cities • Alexander Larman laments the decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs

Jack Tagg • Beacon of provincial culture

How Napoleon won in the end • British business leaders have much to learn from their shrewd French counterparts

What are your links to slavery? • Anonymous argues that some of those connected with the slave trade by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have only the most tenuous of associations

Bitter and twisted • Twitter could be a boon to academics. Instead, it has become the playground of a cynical cabal of work-shy mediocrities

A political colossus • Matthew Elliott pays tribute to Lord Lawson, the political colossus whose calm, assured leadership was pivotal in securing Brexit

The middle classes are in revolt • That barristers and doctors are taking industrial action suggests revolution is in the air

The “on behalf of” Labour Party • It was founded as the party of working people, so why are Labour’s prospective MPs more middle-class than ever before?

A licence to cheat • Andrew Orlowski warns that the abuse of artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT threatens the intellectual integrity of our education system

Insurgents, informers and infighters: inside the Iranian diaspora • MATTHEW PETTI pieces together the way in which the US government and the FBI dealt with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and other opponents of Tehran in the time of the Shah

A rejoinder to the rejoiners • The remainer hullabaloo about the costs of Brexit has been wrong

BRAHMS: SUBLIME GENIUS ON A MAJOR SCALE • Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose

The feud that made the modern age • Daniel Johnson salutes a new book that breathes new life into historical fiction

THE TRIBE THAT TIME FORGOT • Paul Raffaele travels into the heart of the Amazon basin to meet the Korubo people who live in almost total isolation

Adam Dant on …

STUDIO • Home is where the art is

The making of a modern prophet • Andrew Doyle is a writer and comedian

The medieval shock of thenew

Climate change: lessons from the past

Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?

Unpacking an economic titan

J’accuse: the case that never closes

When young men headed East

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