The Critic Magazine

25 March 2021

The Critic's April issue - challenging ideas, thoughtful reflections and entertaining diversions for open-minded readers: John Kamfner delves into the history of separatism; Minoo Dinshaw rectifies the SNP's reading of Scottish history; Joshua Rozenberg demonstrates that referendums are not matters for courts; Adam Dant paints Scottish London; Daniel Hitchens asks if baby boomers have ruined the world; Charles Saumarez Smith assesses the Nazi past of modernist architect Philip Johnson; Lisa Hilton argues that Twitter mobs think they shouldn't police novelists' imagination; Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman explain how the trans movement has trampled on women's rights; Duncan Wheeler illuminates Francis Bacon's passion for bullfighting; Nick Cohen explores what drink does to writers (and writing); Daniel Johnson reassesses Michel Foucault and finds him to be a failed prophet of pederasty; Douglas Murray delves into the troubling life of J M Barrie; Oliver Wiseman profiles 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Senator Tom Cotton; and Graham Stewart interviews Laurence Fox about his mayoral ambitions. Plus twenty-one pages of books and all our Table Talk regulars. A rich diet to last a month.