• Newsletter
  • Podcasts
  • Artillery Row
  • Wine Club
Log in
Subscribe
Print & Online
Subscribe today to Britain's most civilised magazine
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts
  • Artillery Row
  • Wine Club
Log in
Subscribe

DCMS

Bring back DCMS

Bring back DCMS

Artillery Row
Robert Hutton
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC

What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC

The new culture minister airs his views on auntie

Artillery Row
Podcast

Most Read

Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food

Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

Columns
Victoria Smith

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

A king’s ramsons

Look after the woods, and they will continue to give

Table Talk
Patrick Galbraith
Print & Online
Subscribe today to Britain's most civilised magazine

Hector Savage

How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?

Arty Types
D.J. Taylor

All the single ladies

Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families

Artillery Row
Dan Cheslett

Ban their benefits and deport them

Our interview with Zia Yusuf

Features
David Shipley

The Islamists’ young recruits

Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem

Artillery Row
Emma Schubart

The dog that failed to bark

Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself

Features
Sienna Rodgers

Day of judgement

The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked

On Drink
Henry Jeffreys

Against the scolding mob

MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks

Columns
Henry Hill

The generation delusion

Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility

Podcast
Podcast

Standing up for cultural freedom

We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship

Artillery Row
Jenny Lindsay

Rewatching the English

English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define

Columns
Fred Sculthorp
thecritic-logo
  • Features
  • Books
  • Table Talk
  • The Critics
  • About
  • Subscribe to The Critic
  • Privacy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Advertising

Copyright © 2026 Locomotive 6960 Limited

Designed and built by Standfirst.

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}