Issue: February 2020
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
The free speech crisis at Britain’s universities
The massive left-wing bias on campus is putting conservative students at risk
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting
Marathon maniac
Nick Cohen ran and ran and did himself no good in the process
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Non-nose job
In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
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
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
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
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities