The Critic
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November 2019 / Issue 1
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The Critic is Britain’s new monthly magazine for politics, ideas, art, literature and much more. Co-edited by Michael Mosbacher and Christopher Montgomery, The Critic exists to push back against a self-regarding and dangerous consensus that finds critical voices troubling, triggering, insensitive and disrespectful. The point is not provocation or trolling. The point of honest criticism is to better approach truth, not deny its possibility.
Ossified thought and a lack of intellectual rigour are depressing features of all sides of today’s political and cultural debate. Our writers will subscribe to no editorial line nor serve the interests of any party, faction or cause. We ask them to write because we expect them to be honest, and lucidly so. Look to our contributors and fault us if they are not.
Contributors to the magazine include Jonathan Meades, Douglas Murray, Nick Cohen, Joshua Rozenberg, Anne McElvoy, Norman Lebrecht, Daniel Johnson, Lisa Hilton, Hannah Betts and Artists in Residence Adam Dant and Miriam Elia.
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The Critic is Britain’s monthly current affairs and culture magazine, dedicated to rigorous content and first-rate writing — and unafraid to ask the questions others won’t.
In the April issue of The Critic, Chris Bayliss calculates how Britain’s progress towards achieving Net Zero carbon emissions is costed and whether it all adds up, Samuel McIlhagga investigates the rising trend for Birmingham’s rotting Victorian architecture to go up in flames, Henry Hill argues that the student loans model is bust and Pierre d’Alancaisez recalls his part in the modern art madness of Noughties London.
Also, Norman Lebrecht finds the symphony hasn’t died but has gone to India, Christopher North talks to a British bullfighter, Rufus Bird sees signs that the auction houses are turning against contemporary art, Henry Jeffreys doesn’t want his wine paired with food, Zoe Strimpel does want a wellness smoothie, Alexander Larman profiles A.E. Housman and Patrick Nash remembers the great historian, David Abulafia.
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