Sebastian Milbank

Sebastian Milbank is the Executive Editor of the Critic. He tweets at @JSMilbank

The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob

The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come

Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity

The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline

International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards

What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain

The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists

Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert

Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos

The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes