The Critic Magazine (UK)

The Critic is a fresh monthly magazine in the UK that covers a wide range of topics, including politics, ideas, art, literature, and more. Co-edited by Michael Mosbacher and Christopher Montgomery, The Critic aims to challenge a dominant narrative that often dismisses critical perspectives as overly sensitive or offensive. The goal isn't to provoke or stir up trouble; instead, it focuses on honest criticism as a way to seek a deeper understanding of the truth, rather than ignoring it.

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The legal system is not keeping Britons safe

3 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | Ben Sixsmith

Judges should not be softer on criminals for being constitutionally rather than calculatedly dangerous Sometimes, it’s the little details in reportage that affect you. You can be reading about terrible crimes and disasters more or less soberly, and one aside brings home its sheer awfulness. It’s horrifying enough that three teenagers burned 76-year-old widower Robert Price to death, for example, by throwing a firework through his window.
Populism’s problem

4 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | John McGuirk

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. At the very heart of the populist right — its thrumming, animating core — is anti-elitism.
Bore Bore | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

4 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | Robert Hutton

In 1966 Labour won a by-election in Hull by sending Barbara Castle there to promise to build the Humber Bridge. It tells you a lot about the modern Labour party that its 2025 version of this is to send Keir Starmer to promise World War 3. He was visiting a shipyard in Glasgow, and announcing that while we still can’t have nice things, there’s a chance we might be able to fight Russia.
Just how quiet is the “quiet revival”?

5 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | Ben Sixsmith

Young people are more open to faith — but not necessarily religious When I was a young evangelical Christian — having inherited faith more than I had accepted it — I was often baffled by optimistic talk of “revival”. Ours was the “Revival Generation”, preachers would declare, which seemed difficult to believe when The God Delusion was selling almost as many copies as The Bible. But has the moment come? “Gen Z is flocking to church,” declares the Independent.
Doing the hustle

5 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | Sarah Ditum

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Doing the hustleDon’t tell the bookers — I’d hate them to get the idea that I’m an easy get — but I love being a studio guest on live TV. The lights go up, the cameras roll, the adrenaline flows and, for five minutes or so, you’re relying on your wits to save you from national humiliation.
A message from Team Bobby

5 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | Robert Hutton

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. From: Ben.Nunn@HMTOK, so a lot of people are asking, but it’s simple: the Budget is where we tell everyone we’re putting up their taxes. The Spring Statement is where we take away their benefits. And the Spending Review is where we shut their local library. From: [email protected] would Kemi be worried?
Some composers are rightly obscure

1 week ago | thecritic.co.uk | Norman Lebrecht

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. A rustling in the record schedules warns me that 2026 will be the Year of Havergal Brian. Never heard of him? Don’t panic. He’s an English composer of 32 symphonies that, some proclaim, will bring audiences storming back into concert halls. These believers are not isolated.
Reality shows raising racing’s profile

1 week ago | thecritic.co.uk | Stephen Pollard

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Here’s a question: who is champion jockey? I’m a lenient quiz master, so you can answer for either the flat or jumps. And no, it’s not Frankie Dettori, who hasn’t been champion since 2004 but remains the only household name jockey. If you said Oisin Murphy or Sean Bowen (over the jumps), congratulations. But I suspect you’re a hard-core racing fan.
What killed English football fandom?

1 week ago | thecritic.co.uk | Aleks Eror

Fans are being priced out and domesticated England is caught in the throes of a profound identity crisis. Decades of mass migration have quite literally changed the face of the nation, with the dogma of multiculturalism erasing the ethno-cultural elements of English identity and flattening them into an enthusiasm for tea and queuing.
In Brussels, the fish rots from the head

1 week ago | thecritic.co.uk | Pieter Cleppe

The EU is violating its own core values There is a lot of attention for the trade wars and protectionism unleashed by US President Donald Trump. Commentators rightly point out the damage this is doing to global trade and at the higher prices of products and services that will result from it. Not as much wrath has been reserved for the European Union in recent years, despite the fact that the EU has been on its own protectionist roll.