Ben Sixsmith

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

This dumb ahistorical meme should be rejected

The problem with humourless police officers

Unprincipled journalists are demonising the ageing process

Why does the podcast exist? Vine and Hitchens never explain its purpose

The country needs some optimism in miserable times

Journalism should be about revealing what is true — not obscuring it

The PM’s reasoning on sex and gender is genuinely pathetic

Why should watching it be an obligation?

The outspoken MP has had a sad and ironic career

Five decades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail