The Critic Magazine

30 May 2024

In the June issue of The Critic, Graham Linehan chronicles his attempts to get Private Eye to investigate the exploitative activities of trans activists who harassed women and asks why Ian Hislop’s courage failed him; Henry Hill outlines the problem with leasehold reform, Julie Bindel attacks surrogacy’s promotion of creating children without mothers and Heather Welford reveals the purge in a leading breastfeeding advice charity over promoting male chestfeeding as an alternative. Also, Lisa Hilton separates the wheat from the chaff at the Venice Art Biennale, Alasdair Palmer salutes the late thinker Daniel Kahneman, John Self diagnoses why Iain Banks’s once great literary skills fell away, Sarah Ditum goes in search of the real Courtney Love, and Jeffrey Meyers explores the ups and downs of one of British literature’s most enduring friendships — between Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. All this plus a bumper crop of book reviews and critical insight into the sights, sounds, tastes and ideas making waves in Britain and worldwide.