Ben Sixsmith

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

Zarah Sultana and the rise of the MP influencer

Can we leave old books alone?

Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever

Parental regret should be taboo — because the children might be listening

Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t a cause, but a consequence

The problematic discourse is disingenuous opportunism

You have to wonder what the government has against the young

Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning

The bleak origins of Drill music shouldn’t be forgotten

Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism