When The Critic launched our cover line was that we were “the magazine for open-minded readers”. After years of internal mumbling that we were in fact, fully intentionally, the journal of hidebound orthodoxy and thoroughly closed minds, we changed it. And have been Britain’s most civilised magazine ever since.
It’s therefore in a helpful spirit of friendly copywriting advice that we wonder if The Spectator should tag itself, “right to the top”? Because their television critic, James Delingpole, is getting to the bottom of things. Specifically “the same kind of people” who were responsible for World War one, and, slightly unimaginatively, World War two, were also responsible for the great covid hoax, he tells us.
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But we have to tell James, those guilty Kind of People [hereafter in The Critic style guide, KoP] are everywhere, and closer than he thinks. Indeed, they go right to the top, right in Old Queen Street. So keep an eye out for KoPs, James, and see them before they see you!
