Issue: April 2022
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
Steam and cedar
How to moth-proof your carefully curated personal V&A
Manifesto for traditional elegance
Classicism’s enduring relevance and timeless appeal
Sent to the gulags
School trips with the oligarch kids
Amour fou of the star-crossed lovers
The relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh was one of all-consuming passion
The wine of emperors
The puzzling economics of venison
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
More of the same news from the BBC
Stonewall’s agenda is still embedded in the Corporation’s culture
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world