Satire
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name