The Critic - 1 Jul 2025
How we live now
Summer Books Special
NOT UNIVERSITY MATERIAL
NOT UNIVERSITY MATERIAL
THIS MONTH’S COVER IS ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL BLOW
South Africa’s doom loop
Striving for the divine
Choose your Chancellor
Balancing the books
On His Majesty’s service
A question of character
Victim or heartless murderer?
City of the future
Edmund Stewart: What is Ancient History?
Henry George: The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution
Why you should believe in Mrs B
Why France keeps rioting
Masters of the digital battlefield
PROFILE: Colin MacInnes
Titania McGrath: Make every day a Pride day
Theodore Dalrymple: “working people”
Marcus Walker: You won’t find God in your iPhone
Letters
Paul Lay: Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the Civil War
Andrew Cusack: The Dandy: A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour
Richard Askwith: England’s Everest: The 200-Year story of the Lake District 24-Hour Fell Record
Nina Power: Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
Alexander Lee: Brunelleschi and the Moment of the Renaissance
Pierre d’Alancaisez: Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting
Sebastian Milbank: Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
David Goodhart: The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
Charlotte Gauthier: Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illuminated Manuscripts
Patrick West: True Conservatism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Arrogant Age
Turner’s London
A crisis of sex and money
Our position is No More U-Turns
Ned: Why bankers are living saints
Why so many Northerners?
The will to power
D.J. Taylor on Diana Lampwick
Lisa Hilton: Schnapps decision
Yuan Yi Zhu: Hollow “decolonisation”
How AI is making us more stupid
Alexandra Wilson: Myra Hess: National Treasure
John Self: A story of doublings
“He’s gone to bed. I need a drink.”
Lisa Hilton braves the Pan Asian Fusion Cuisine of OKA so you don’t have to
Will anyone follow the Lieder?
A bronzed beauty worthy of a prize?
Felipe Fernández-Armesto suggests an alternative to deep-fried chicken
Christopher Pincher wants to bring back the buttonhole
Patrick Galbraith on how to do conservation on the cheap
Stephen Pollard asks why racing seems so ashamed of betting
Claudia Savage-Gore has had it up to here with your nonsense!
Rufus Bird believes the market needs a rethink
Patrick Kidd: Princes of cricket
Transhumanist trauma with Ed Atkins
Bonfire of the vanities
The delicate art of sampling
Lets hear it for Rattigan again
Fanning the flames of the firebird
Podcasters: do as I say, not as I do
Seek out The Ballad of Wallis Island
When the Nazis occupied Britain
Hannah Betts reflects on Liberty
Henry Jeffreys on the rise of Essex
Boris Starling: Duel in the pool
Alan White: Roping the dopes
The will to power
The will to power
ACADEMIA IN CHAINS
CONNOISSEURS OR PUBLICISTS?
BOOTHBY ’ S FINEST HOUR
A hollow “decolonisation”
Woman About Town
Bridging the divides
PESTON’S INBOX
After the crowds have gone ...
Why bankers are earthly saints
Victim or cold, heartless murderer?
City of the future
South African doom loop?
MASTERS OF THE DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD
MASTERS OF THE DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD
Make every day a Pride Day
Why you should believe in Mrs B
Colin MacInnes
Colin MacInnes
Christianity cannot be virtual
Striving for the divine
Striving for the divine
How AI is making us more stupid
On His Majesty’s Service
Diana Lampwick Dutiful daughter
TOP TRUMPS: CAMBRIDGE EDITION
TOP TRUMPS: CAMBRIDGE EDITION
Plus ça change: why France keeps rioting
STUDIO
STUDIO
Adam Dant on...
Adam Dant on...
Should we make Classics history?
Should we make Classics history?
Poet, artist, tantric Christian
Poet, artist, tantric Christian
The past in pictures
Brunelleschi’s egg
The dead hand of decolonisation
Allies and enemies
Beating the retreat
Trapped in an identity crisis
Making the best of what we have
Making the best of what we have
Striving for peak perseverance
Why GDP is no longer FFP (fit for purpose)
Pretty as peacocks
Keyboard warrior
The art of twisting and turning
A crisis of sex and money
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
WHILE EXCITEDLY HAILED DOCTOR WHO’S “SAVIOUR” AFTER
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
I NOTE CELEBRITY WORKING
Will anyone follow the Lieder?
Bonfire of the Vanities
Old into new
Old into new
Let’s hear it for Rattigan again
Seek out the brilliant Ballad
When the Nazis occupied Britain
Fanning the firebird’s flames
Podcasters: do as I say, not as I do
Transhumanist trauma
A bronzed beauty worthy of a prize?
A bronzed beauty worthy of a prize?
No, I am definitely not OKA
Real fried chicken
The only way is ...
Luxury beliefs
Buttonhole bliss
Buttonhole bliss
Luxury beliefs
Wildlife on the cheap
Betting is not a crime
At Liberty
Go substack yourself!
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