Sebastian Milbank

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

Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age

Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand

The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty

We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding

The strange state of the States

Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy

The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate

From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024

Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives