Ben Sixsmith

Ben Sixsmith is Online Editor of The Critic. He tweets @BDSixsmith

Victims were failed at every level — could there be more cases to come?

It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!

Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering

Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control

Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence

Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage

The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too

Institutional drift leftwards does not have to be inevitable

Is Musk’s takeover of Twitter a good thing, a disaster, or just very funny?  

What is “post-truth” schooling?