Ben Sixsmith

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

Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues

From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means

Decades on from the beginning of the infected blood scandal, our institutions still fail to align themselves with the truth

Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure

The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage

The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing

No one actually knows how to raise birth rates

Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause

A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee

Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak