Sarah Ditum

Imagine, as a thought experiment, that you are a massively corrupt Czech immigrant to the UK, bent on ensconcing yourself within the British establishment. What would be at the top of your shopping list of UK institutions? Almost certainly not a red-top tabloid. It’s an index of print’s decline that a modern-day Robert Maxwell would [...]Read More...

In her instantly bestselling novel, Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke gleefully tortures her main character, an ‘American dreamgirl’ influencer

Being diagnosed with a condition may make your symptoms worse — or even prove fatal, as Helen Pilcher argues in This Book May Cause Side Effects

In Exposed, the law professor Clare McGlynn examines the vast, repellent industry exploiting women and children

First trip to Glasgow and haunting backwards from the future This article is taken from the May 2026 issue of The Critic.

In How to Rule the World, the 21-year-old student journalist Theo Baker reveals how he brought down the elite university’s president — and exposes the moral vacuum of the tech world

What happened to JK Rowling? If only there were some kind of primary source that could tell us why she became interested in the clash between trans

It’s no wonder there were allegations of rape on Married at First Sight — these shows set out to exploit and humiliate

In Someone Must Know, retired policeman Dave Grimstead chronicles his organisation’s work reviewing cold cases to try and identify the missing

credit: Warner Records Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to