Issue: December/January 2025
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Medieval treasures of Germany
Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
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
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show