Although our courageous decision to postpone our summer party for 24 hours at the last minute was condemned by some of our guests as being “woke” (for “giving into the weather”), everyone who came had fun. Those present in the magazine’s Tufton Street garden included senior editor, Engelsberg Ideas, and former Critic literary editor and editor of History Today Paul Lay … Pharos chairman & Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford Nigel Biggar … Antigone Journal editor & literary editor of The Critic David Butterfield … Oxford power couple David & Anna Abulafia … sage & seer Jon Moynihan … former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost … former Home Secretary Suella Braverman … former Trade Secretary Lord Lilley … former Leader of the House of Commons Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg … New Criterion editor Roger Kimball … President of the Jobs Foundation and former Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott … Blueprint co-founder and resident Critic genius, our art director Martin Colyer … evangelist of the City and rector of Great St Bartholemew’s Marcus Walker … GBN’s Steven Edginton … churchwarden & Times diarist Patrick Kidd … Equiano Project co-founder & NPG trustee Inaya Folarin Iman …

beloved Critic artist John Springs … political editor of the i Hugo Gye …. Telegraph contributing editor Dia Chakravarty … GBN’s Tom Harwood … sparkly icon & Critic assistant editor Jo Bartosch … former Liz Truss speechwriter Asa Bennett … Opinion & features editor City A.M. Alys Denby … Tatler personality, ConHome’s William Atkinson … the country’s foremost music critic Norman Lebrecht … free thinker Obadiah Mbatang  … Critic sketchwriter Rob Hutton … landlord and “We Have Ways” platinum-tier member Tim Chapman … Country Life and Critic columnist Paddy Galbraith … editor of The Article and former editor of Standpoint Daniel Johnson … great hope Charlie Bentley-Astor … Somerset Herald Mark Scott … Editor of The Conservative Reader & Onward thinker Gavin Rice … lifestyle economist and Dark Money: How To Spend It columnist Christopher Snowdon … literary critic Mia Levitin … former Clarenceux King of Arms Patric Dickinson … educationalist & acidic book reviewer David James … Telegraph assistant comment editor Poppy Coburn … author and academic Alexandra Wilson…

former Sunday Times political editor Jonathan Oliver … quondam diarist Harry Phibbs … ITV News political editor & novelist Robert Peston … William Hickey at the Express Robert Meakin … GBN political editor Chris Hope … urbane urbanist, acting ConHome editor Henry Hill … novelist and 5 News political editor Andy Bell … vicar of Chelsea Old Church Max Bayliss … Director of the Next Generation Centre at the ASI Sam Bidwell … migration watcher Jordan Knight … chicken sexologist & Civitas research manager Ellen Pasternack … hipster doofus and online editor of The Critic Ben Sixsmith … soprano, actress, whatever Sarah Gabriel … magician, editor-in-chief of PoliticsHome and The House Alan White … take deviser and appreciator Simone Hanna … brooding social dissectionist Fred Skulthorp … radio critic, cricket lover, music lover Michael Henderson … easily the country’s best wine critic Henry Jeffreys … National Trust defender Zewditu Gebreyohanes … Vanenburg Society secretary-general Jonathan Price … art historian Ella Nixon … don & Critic cooking correspondent Felipe Fernández-Armesto … Civic Future & Policy Exchange fellow Lara Brown … Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Centre Mehmet Çiftçi … deep-thinking freelancer Beatrice Scudeler … stylish art critic and curator Pierre d’Alancaisez … historian, biographer & ConHome sketchwriter Andrew Gimson … former Prospect editor David Goodhart … wealth creator Luke Johnson … treasured opera critic Robert Thicknesse … Legatum plumber Fred de Fossard … boulevardier and resting actor Romeo Coates … “true social justice” activist Andrew Cusack … controversialist and conversationalist Nina Power … sanguine substacker and former UnHerd editor Ed West … free speech specialist Toby Young … Maastricht rebel and Bruges Group chairman Barry Legg … historian of the Henrician revolution in government David Starkey … dissatisfied twenty-first century resident Georgia L. Gilholy … Lotus Eating expert Connor Tomlinson … tireless tax-sceptic Jess Gill … monetarist thinker and Critic columnist Tim Congdon … postliberal thinker & NIESR deputy director Adrian Pabst … author, Norfolkwoman and patroness Jessica Douglas-Home … former Kebab Awards judge and quiz question James Price … “writer, bather, feminist” Octavia Sheepshanks … explosive Bombshells duo Fleur Meston and Amy Sheppard … Telegraph columnist & internet understander Andrew Orlowski … the Boom campaign co-founder Phoebe Arslanagić-Little … BBC escapee & Hansard society podcaster Mark D’Arcy.