Issue: June 2023
Names in the frame
All human emotions find their expression on the green baize
Young, gifted — and readerless
Why have we never heard of most of the young writers on the latest “Best of …” list?
The sorcerer of speed
Stirling Moss performed almost supernaturally
A license to cheat
The abuse of artificial intelligence systems threatens the integrity of our education system
Inside the Iranian diaspora
How the US government and the FBI dealt with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and other opponents of Tehran in the time of the Shah
A rejoinder to the rejoiners
The remainer hullabaloo about the costs of Brexit has been wrong
A bid to inspire future architects
The Farrell Centre opens the door to architecture.
The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
Two essays in excellence
The BBC at its best on Shakespeare, and remembering Barry Humphries.
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
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
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
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
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand