Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman is a writer, editor and former foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of Standpoint magazine in London and The Indian Quarterly in Mumbai. The author of Aiding & Abetting (2013), he is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute for the Study of Civil Society (although views expressed for The Critic are his own)
The Italian model
Did Chinese migrant labour in the fashion industry bring Covid-19 to Europe?
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill