British intellectual magazine featuring essays on politics, culture, and ideas.
Engagement Insights
Discussions from The Critic
Who’d want to be English?
We spend too much time asking who is English, and not enough time being English Source
Are the directors all perverts?
The message coming over the footlights is always the same Source
There is no headroom left
The government can keep kicking the can down the road, but eventually it has to pick it up Source
This is what Britain looks like
The Turner Prize’s confused vision of Britain is revealing Source
Is Ofcom picking a fight with America?
Canada’s dispute with Trump shows what happens when domestic internet regulation crosses the Atlantic Source
National security vs national interest
Britain’s dispute with Israel raises a bigger question: are our alliances still serving our national interest? Source
A different proposition
Is the establishment turning to democratic backsliding to fend off Reform? Source
Britain’s rules are for fools
Seven in ten Britons think following the rules leaves them worse off Source
What’s the point of Britain’s foreign policy?
Britain’s diplomats are winning international approval at the expense of national interest Source
Merz’s thirst for self-annihilation
Friedrich Merz looks increasingly like Germany’s answer to Keir Starmer — and the CDU is helping him self-destruct Source
Crisis at Europe’s gates
Slowly but surely, the European migration debate is changing Source