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  • The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    Walk Tall In These Shoes
    THE LATE FATHER OF MY DEAR FRIEND AND FELLOW COLUMNIST Johnny Leavesley was a most astute man of business. Trusted by all who had dealings with him, Jim Leavesley possessed a wealth of wisdom, tailored in memorable terms, which he gave freely to his
    The Critic Magazine6 min letti
    The End Of High Quality Homes
    LAST DECEMBER, MICHAEL GOVE DELIVERED what might be the most puzzling speech of any senior politician in recent times. Entitled “Falling back in love with the Future”, it opened with an extended paean to the extraordinary legacy of Britain’s Victoria
    The Critic Magazine6 min letti
    The Best We Can Hope For
    DANIEL KAHNEMAN DIED ON 27 MARCH AT the age of 90. He was one of the most perceptive and accurate psychologists of the last 100 years, and his analysis of the sorts of mistake we are liable to make when trying to decide what to do is permanently valu
    The Critic Magazine2 min letti
    Medical Science Is Oppressive
    “ILLNESS” IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT, defined solely (and in negative terms) against its antithesis: “wellness”. Society, in other words, has created the category of “illness” as a means to impose power on those who do not conform to cultural norms of wha
    The Critic Magazine1 min letti
    The Critic
    Editor: Christopher Montgomery Deputy Editor: Graham Stewart Art Director: Martin Colyer Designers: David Rice and Sofia Azcona Production Editor: Nick Pryer Deputy Production Editor: Neil Armstrong Literary Editor: David Butterfield Executive Editor
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Posh Pinks
    THE INSIDE OF CLOS DU TEMPLE winery in the Languedoc looks like a set from the original Star Trek. The wine is housed in a series of 10-foot black bauxite pyramids each topped with gold, or “gold pyramidion overcoming the vats” as the publicity mater
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    I Love A “Dream Home” Nightmare
    THERE ARE FEW THINGS I LIKE more than getting home after a long, hard day at work, kicking off my shoes, cracking open a beer and listening to someone talk about their dreadful life. “Have you ever wanted to start again?” Alice Levine, of My Dad Wrot
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Romeo Coates “Between You And Me …”
    AS THE MEDIA FOLK SWOON OVER celebrity thespians’ one-man/one-woman West End shows, trouble surely brews for the rest of us. With the supporting character actor long content to enhance the more starry endeavours of leading men and ladies of the day,
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    Pop On A Party Hat
    DID HUMANS BEGIN SPORTING hats 35,000 years ago? The Last Ice Age certainly provided the perfect storm: our brains expanded, we evolved social strategies such as bonding over fab threads, and it was seriously bloody cold. Our hankering after headwear
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Whole lotta Love
    THE LABEL “DIFFICULT” GETS OVER-used for women, but in Courtney Love’s case, you can say she earned it. At 59, she’s lived every cliché of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, and racked up a list of beefs that makes your average rapper look like a Quaker.
    The Critic Magazine6 min letti
    Burmese Days: For Good And Ill
    TRAVELLING THROUGH NEWLY INDEpendent Burma in 1952, Norman Lewis concluded that the country: has freed itself from Western domination almost with the ease of removing an unwanted garment. As a result, no trace of bitterness remains, and a Westerner c
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    Can Jokes In Terrible Taste Ever Be Funny?
    IT MIGHT SOUND DEPRESSING TO WRITE “A book about humor while living through a cancer diagnosis, major surgery, and a global pandemic”. Yet David Shoemaker calls it “the most joyful experience of my academic life”. Wisecracks is clearly the work of an
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Patrick Kidd
    THERE HAVE BEEN LONGER TEST CAREERS than JIMMY ANDERSON’s but not many, not recently and not among pace bowlers. The Lancashire seamer has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match (only two nonspinners have even bowled 30,000 times) and
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    The Whores And Mores Of Hanoverian London
    A CHARACTER IN FRANÇOIS RABELAIS’S Pantagruel, when discussing the expense of rebuilding the city walls of sixteenth-century Paris, suggests a novel solution: why not take a cheap and widely available material, namely pudenda, “arranged in good archi
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    Real Pond Life
    A LITTLE OVER A FORTNIGHT ago, I stood down on the sand by the Thames, around a small bonfire. A poet read some of his work and then a lady who had come all the way from Scotland sang a song that she explained was music from the “traveller folk”. It
    The Critic Magazine3 min lettiInternational Relations
    Please Remember: Terrorism Is Evil
    VIOLENCE IS BAD. Violence deliberately targeted against civilians is evil. It seems rather odd to have to say this. For most of my life this would have been axiomatic but since the pogrom unleashed upon the Jews of Southern Israel on 7 October this s
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    “Nympho” Rides Again
    WHY DO I PERIODICALLY do this to myself? My four-yearly pilgrimage to the Hurlingham Club for the dreaded ISS — not a terrorist organisation, but the Independent Schools Show. Actually, in many ways it does feel like some kind of indoctrination camp,
    The Critic Magazine5 min letti
    What Law? What Order?
    THE CRITIC IS BASED IN WESTMINSTER. A minute’s walk from our front door takes you to the front entrance of the Home Office. Who or what can you see between us and them? Junkies. At any time of day or night, here is a Britain that ought to shame polit
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    This Was A Bad Start To The Week
    THEIR NOTION OF BALANCE, ROD Liddle has said of the BBC, where he once held a senior editorial role, is simple. You pair a soft leftie, an intellectual kormamuncher, with an ideologue who prefers to fork down a vindaloo. Start the Week, on Radio 4, d
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    The Secret War Of A Wolf In Chic Clothing
    IF YOU’VE EVER READ ANYTHING MUCH about British intelligence and special operations in the Second World War, the name Dudley Clarke will have popped up. He was one of the earliest protagonists of “Commando” units and was then involved in deception op
    The Critic Magazine6 min letti
    Diversion, Disruption And Distinction
    WHAT GIVES A NOVEL PROMInence? By that I don’t mean distinction, as the two are different qualities. The Swiss writer Robert Walser summed up the difference in his story “The Walk”, when the narrator entered a bookshop and, contemplating a particular
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Why There Has Been No Street Life
    THE BICENTENARY OF G.E. STREET’S birth is on 20 June 2024, although you can be forgiven for not having noticed. Only the Victorian Society is celebrating with a special issue of their in-house magazine, The Victorian, a new monograph written by the l
    The Critic Magazine7 min lettiLGBTQIA+ Studies
    Chasing Rainbows
    LAST WEEK BRITAIN’S “Minister for ommon Sense” proudly announced banning civil servants from wearing rainbow lanyards. Esther McVey’s latest offensive in her party’s war on Whitehall wokery was dead within 24 hours. The day following McVey’s Colonel
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Did QE Cost Taxpayers?
    SO MANY MONETARY POLICY decisions have been wrong in the last few years that it is not surprising that politicians and journalists spend time looking out for yet another cock-up. According to numerous media reports, the Bank of England’s programmes o
    The Critic Magazine8 min letti
    The First Futurist
    He told us, that he had given Mrs [Elizabeth] Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe’s works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he now enumerated, allowing a considerable share of merit to a man, who, bred a tr
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    The Golden Age Of Jockeys
    I WAS TALKING TO A FRIEND THE OTHER DAY ABOUT CABINET ministers, as one does. I was arguing the entirely unoriginal point that things were definitely better in The Olden Days. Where are the Healeys, the Lawsons, the Clarkes today? We have a load of p
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Woman About Town
    ONE OF THE GREATEST SCENES IN CINEMA IS THE moment in Annie Hall when Woody Allen, irritated by a stranger’s pompous lecturing about media theorist Marshall McLuhan, summons the actual Marshall McLuhan to issue a correction in the flesh. “You know no
    The Critic Magazine3 min letti
    When in Spain …
    “YOU CAN’T BE TRUSTED,” my wife said, with solemnity she reserves for moments of menace, “to go to Salamanca on your own.” The implied aspersion was not on my morals, which are too strongly fortified to topple in a city of such antiquity and respecta
    The Critic Magazine3 min lettiCrime & Violence
    What Price Justice?
    NICHOLAS AND ROSEMARY Sherman booked a cruise to the Northwest Passage in 2018; but because of adverse ice conditions had to settle for floating off the coast of Greenland for two weeks. They took the cruise operator to court. After losing in the Cou
    The Critic Magazine4 min letti
    Sein oder Nichtsein
    IT’S UNUSUAL FOR ACTORS TO VAULT Europe’s many language barriers — and end up with a lead in an Oscarwinning film. But Sandra Hüller is a breakout German talent, an actress from the post-Wall era who exudes a mix of modernity in her uncluttered style

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