Ben Sixsmith
Ben Sixsmith is Online Editor of The Critic. He tweets @BDSixsmith
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded