Ben Sixsmith
Ben Sixsmith is Online Editor of The Critic. He tweets @BDSixsmith
Less is more
Higher Education maintains an elevated status because little respect is given to alternatives
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
Why do conservatives think they are winning?
The right needs to understand that progressive intolerance is a strength, not a weakness
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough