Issue: June 2022
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Clearly raising the tone
What makes the perfect radio voice?
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
Women should not be for sale
We must challenge the Left’s view of prostitution as “progressive” and “sex work” as liberating
Bombastic lecture on the evil empire
From the suppression of colonial documents, Caroline Elkins spins a tale of violence
Justice over the internet
Civil cases could soon be resolved quickly and cheaply through online “portals”
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
The diary of Dilyn the dog
You think you’ve got it bad
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
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
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does