The Critic | June 2020
THE CRITIC, the new magazine of ideas for open-minded readers — in our June issue: Simon Heffer & David Starkey on how Boris Johnson and his team have disastrously mismanaged the corona lockdown; Tim Congdon on Donald Trump's profligate corona spending and its dire consequences; Adam LeBor on the Third Reich's plan for a post-war united Europe; Nick Cohen on the Corbynistas stab-in-the-back myth; Guy Walters, Tony Blair, Jacob Rees-Mogg & Charles Moore remember Eric Anderson, an inspirational teacher, Louise Perry on why polyamory is bad news for women, regardless of how progressively it is dressed up; David Ekserdjian & Michael Prodger on the risks of deaccessioning by museums; Daniel Johnson on Wagner & Roger Scruton; Nick Timothy on The Economist and the flaws of its liberalism; Selina Todd on why sex really matters; John Preston on Jeremy Thorpe; Norman Lebrecht on the sound of silence; Anne McElvoy on onscreen religion. In Table Talk, Lisa Hilton dreams of fish pies in Mayfair; Felipe Fernandez asks why the English feed their babies and dogs so badly, Christopher Pincher has a Pauline conversion; Hannah Betts contemplates the awfulness of wedding dress; Claudia Savage-Gore send the little darlings back to school; Patrick Galbraith shoots some pigeons, Christopher North pays tribute to the greatest Matador; Tom Chesshyre reads Larkin on a train; and Hephzibah Anderson enjoys a gardening triumph.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Critic June 2020.