In The Critic’s 112 page July/August summer double issue: Allister Haimes on how politicians got the Covid-19 lockdown wrong; David Starkey & Wanjiru Njoya on the faulty history and analysis of Black Lives Matter; Douglas Murray on his two literary mentors; Louise Perry on the dignity of housework; Richard Cockett on China’s growing belligerence; Michael Collins on Britain’s overlooked white working class; Matt Zwolinski & Jamie Whyte make the free market case for — and against — a universal basic income; Marie Le Conte on being at the centre of a twitter storm; Josephine Bartosch on the challenges of growing up small; Jacob Willer on a truly dreadful painter, and the dead end of artistic revivalism; Daniel Johnson on the young Max Weber; Robert Chandler on Vassily Grossman’s war reporting; Graham Stewart on the death of the Sloane Ranger; Dominic Lawson on The Spectator; Andrew Roberts on Lord Haldane; Richard Griffiths on Britain’s failed far right; plus all our regulars including Joshua Rozenberg, Hannah Betts, Norman Lebrecht, Anne McElvoy & Titania McGrath. Also The Critic’s first competition - the first person to solve Adam Dant’s London Rebus wins a £500 limited edition print.