The Critic - 1 Dez 2025
Season of goodwill
CHRISTMAS DOUBLE ISSUE
A gross dereliction of duty
THIS MONTH’S COVER IS
Samuel Rubinstein: The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work by Lenny
Henry and Marcus Ryder; Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt
Michael D. Hurley: The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
The frosty frontier
STUDIO
Realism versus restraint
Crime and Christianity
Coalhenge: wonders of the past
Why Anglicans and art don’t mix
A question of identity
Civil service overreach
Time to change the programme
Tom Jones: Against Post-Liberalism: Why “Family, Faith and Flag” is a Dead End for the Left by Paul Kelly; Post-Liberalism
Labour: a party for nostalgics
PROFILE: Simon Raven
Sounding Board
The decline and fall of the Army
My Woke World
Niall Gooch: Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Andrew Orlowski: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Brendan Simms: Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World
Richard Bratby: Someone Else’s Music: Opera and the British
Gabriel Glickman: The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain
David Thomas: Into the Dream Lab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares
Sarah Moorhouse: Books: A Manifesto, or, How to Build a Library
Mark Glanville: Central Europe: The Death of a Civilisation and the Life of an Idea
David James: The Difficult Ghost: Searching for Truman Capote
THE SECRET AUTHOR
Helen Joyce
Law
Woman about Town
Peston’s inbox
Serious business
University Challenged
Everyday Lies
Romeo Coates
Alexandra Wilson: John Williams: A Composer’s Life
Justin Marozzi: White
Jaspreet Singh Boparai: Great Art Explained
John Self: Fiction books of the year
Daniel Johnson: Books of the year
Arty Types
“Do you want to know what you want?”
Eating Out
Norman Lebrecht The year the mob called the tune
Charles Saumarez Smith
Art House
Deluxe
Landscapes
Hot House
Country Notes
Style
Eating In
Patrick Kidd: Ciao, San Siro
Sarah Ditum
Robert Hutton
Ben Sixsmith
Pierre d’Alancaisez
Alexander Larman Booty and the green-eyed beast
Adam LeBor
Michael Henderson Keeping in tune with the Times
Robert Thicknesse
Drink
Boris Starling: Hardy perennial
Stephen Pollard: Ashes dreams
The trans craze aftermath
Should we blow up drug boats?
Woman About Town
PESTON’S INBOX
Zach and Zara’s jobs are no more
A question of identity
The decline and fall of the British Army
The danger of civil service overreach
TIME TO CHANGE THE PROGRAMME
Online screening: the inconvenient truth
Labour: a party for nostalgics
Realism versus Restraint
The frosty frontier
The frosty frontier
Christmas at the crossroads
Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along
Simon Raven
Simon Raven
Gary Lomax
Crime and Christianity
EVERYDAY LIES WITH THEODORE DALRYMPLE
Coalhenge: Britain’s colossal wonders
STUDIO
STUDIO
More than merely a magician with words
More than merely a magician with words
The folly of selfflagellation
History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda
The great divide
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Such stuff as dreams are made on
How to halt the continental drift
States of uncertainty
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
The movies’ maestro
A long shelf life
Misguided mission to explain
Waste product
Alpine lyricism
Losing Truman
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Advertise in The Critic
Debuts, comebacks and suprises
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
Romeo Coates “Between you and me …”
WITH TONY HOPKINS LEADING
The year the mob called the tune
Bring on the dinosaurs
Girls don’t just wanna have fun
Girls don’t just wanna have fun
Booty and the green-eyed beast
Sheer murder? It must be Christmas
Danish thriller is a real diamond
Keeping in tune with the Times
A gripping insight into cybercrime
The future is Chinese
Recognition that small is beautiful
Recognition that small is beautiful
The art of fine dining
LESLEY FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO stands in for her husband in order to mix things up a little
HENRY JEFFREYS suggests budget-friendly bubby for Christmas
RUFUS BIRD decodes the winning formula of a rare gallery success story
LISA HILTON enjoys her meal at a Mayfair restaurant (mostly) but the art ... not so much
MARIAN BOSWALL takes inspiration from gardening books old and new
CLAUDIA SAVAGE-GORE despairs about kids and Christmas
HANNAH BETTS offers advice on how to be a stylish you at Yuletide
CHRISTOPHER PINCHER finds a Celtic arcadia in deepest Wales
PATRICK GALBRAITH enjoys a bit of the rough stuff
Mixing things up
Sparkling season
The Critic Wine Club is here!
Buyer knows best?
Celtic arcadia
Celtic arcadia
Buyer knows best?
Timeless wisdom
Having a rough time
Timeless wisdom
Having a rough time
The wonder of you
Trying and flailing
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