Ben Sixsmith

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

A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age

Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?

England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain

Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?

New public health proposals are missing the pint

Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed

Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes

How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?

The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost