Issue: November 2019
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
Welcome to The Critic
The opinions which govern modern Britain should be seen as such — opinions. We will drag them kicking and screaming into public view
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Holy baloney
Marcus Walker prays for episcopal consistency
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
Good luck…
David Goodhart wishes The Critic every success
Small is best
In Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa small nations lead in terms of economic and social development
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
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture