Despite the best efforts of state media to dishonestly forecast rain, hoping to intimidate private sector media patriotically eschewing foreign words like marquees, The Critic’s policy of having three-vicar minimum summer parties paid off yet again and the weather was with us. Those present in the magazine’s lavishly Adam Dant-decorated Tufton Street garden included former editor of The Times and the TLS Sir Peter Stothard … senior editor, Engelsberg Ideas, and former Critic literary editor and editor of History Today Paul Lay … Antigone Journal editor & literary editor of The Critic David Butterfield … editor of The Article and former editor of Standpoint Daniel Johnson … chairwoman of the RLS Ruth Scurr … historian, biographer & ConHome sketchwriter Andrew Gimson … Spectator sketchwriter Madeline Grant … Critic sketchwriter Rob Hutton … clergyman & author Fergus Butler-Gallie … vicar of Chelsea Old Church Max Bayliss … evangelist of the City, rector of Great St Bartholemew’s and artist’s model Marcus Walker …
… former Leader of the House of Commons Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg … former Trade Secretary Lord Lilley … President of the Jobs Foundation and former Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott … sage, seer and sometime A&R man Jon Moynihan … Telegraph contributing editor Dia Chakravarty … The Critic’s (and world’s best) pop correspondent Sarah Ditum … beloved Critic artist John Springs … GBN’s Tom Harwood … sparkly icon & Critic assistant editor Jo Bartosch … Liz Truss press secretary Jonathan Isaby … former Sunday Times political editor Jonathan Oliver … William Hickey at the Express Robert Meakin … GBN political editor Chris Hope … stand-out talent lost to the sordid world of politics Sam Bidwell … chicken sexologist & Civitas research manager Ellen Pasternack … active natalist and Critic executive editor David Scullion … critic & novelist Jenny McCartney … academic, book reviewer & Critic legal correspondent Yuan Yi Zhu … Veep whisperer & on an advisory board near you James Orr …
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… website-defining, flagship contributor Chris Bayliss … 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 … reactionary catholic zoomer Connor Tomlinson … Norfolk landowner the Earl of Leicester … Pharos chairman & Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford Nigel Biggar … Blueprint co-founder and resident Critic genius, our art director Martin Colyer …double leopard print and easily triple or quadruple threat City A.M. opinion & features editor Alys Denby … first, and still more tragically, second day of the fourth test misser William Atkinson … the country’s foremost music critic Norman Lebrecht … landlord, consultee & Spectator wine club member Tim Chapman … Country Life and Critic columnist Paddy Galbraith … great hope Charlie Bentley-Astor … lifestyle economist Christopher Snowdon …
… strong economy representative and online editor of The Critic Ben Sixsmith … Critic columnist & sex defender Helen Joyce … take deviser and appreciator Simone Hanna … brooding social dissectionist Fred Sculthorp … art historian Ella Nixon … Spectator commissioning editor Lara Brown … Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Centre Mehmet Çiftçi … deep-thinking freelancer Beatrice Scudeler … treasured opera critic Robert Thicknesse … Prosperity Institute hatchet man & RFC season ticket holder Fred de Fossard … former Kebab Awards judge and quiz question James Price … grandparent keep-aliverer Fleur Meston … Telegraph columnist & internet understander Andrew Orlowski … the Boom campaign co-founder Phoebe Arslanagić-Little … BBC escapee & Hansard society podcaster Mark D’Arcy …internet sensation and hat-wearer Charles Amos … Plough editor Ian Barth … forest-threatening prodigious historian Jeremy Black … one-woman army Charlotte Gill … party starting personality Malin Bogue … taurine aficionado Christopher North … we’re assuming not a Commie, Spiked editor Tom Slater … Critic Sporting Lifer & former Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard …
… host of The Sceptic Laurie Wastell … Times leader writer Neil Tweedie … European Conservative contributing editor Harrison Pitt … boulevardier and resting actor Romeo Coates … international thought-criminal Lois McLatchie Miller … TPA professional freedomist William Yarwood … co-founder of Open Justice UK Melisa Tourt … television programme maker Adam Curtis … vibe engineer Adam Wren … watchmen-watcher Amanda Spielman … ineffable arts writer Helen Barrett … Blue Labour consequential & Critic associate editor Sebastian Milbank … ur-Brexiteer Daniel Hannan … Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art under Her late majesty, Elizabeth II, & Critic gallery correspondent Rufus Bird … enthusiast, fundraiser, connoisseur Lola Salem … opera entrepreneur Mark Ashburton … contingency in tweed Gawain Towler … arachnophiliac number-counter Gavin Williamson …
… senior First Things editor & mensch Dan Hitchens … literary critic & arty types parser DJ Taylor … historian & Alls Souls fellow Noel Malcolm … Christian Platonist and Renaissance woman Esmé Partridge … wondrous artist John Montgomery … sometime don, inventor of Englishness, churchwarden Bijan Omrani … #winner Maya Forstater … the country’s leading hedge layer Richard Negus … Telegraph leader writer Sam Ashworth-Hayes … home affairs editor of the Guardian, on the phone to Prevent Rajeev Syal … Critic contributing editor & highly realistic International Relations prof. Patrick Porter … genial pollster Tony Wells … friend of good causes Alan Bekhor … former FT leader writer & City editor Jonathan Ford … Raw Egg Nationalist Charles Cornish-Dale … and, at least two admirers of the shadow Lord Chancellor, one being anonymous, the other being the refulgently glamorous Michal Berkner.
