The Critic Magazine

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 May issue, Fred Sculthorp reports from Dubai, where gripes from many of the quarter of a million British expats there are directed less at incoming Iranian drones and more against what fellow Britons who stayed at home think about their dreams and achievements.

Political coverage includes Harry Hill going in search of Labour’s plan for growth, Reform’s offer to farmers and an interview with the party’s Zia Yusuf. Daniel DePetris examines whether, in the absence of Trump’s America, France could offer Europe its nuclear shield.

Also, Sebastian Milbank marvels at the promise of space exploration, Clive Aslet salutes the modern classical architect, Quinlan Terry, Jaspreet Singh Bopari explores a sacrificial act that shaped V.S. Naipaul, and Patrick Kidd bemoans the absence of either a Scotland or England World Cup song.